alex bodnaru wrote: > ls -l and df miscalculate the total file size. see the sample output below.
I don't see anything wrong with that output. > output of: ls -lh /smb-server/uml-net/ > total 1.6G > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex uml-net 23M Feb 26 2005 Debian-3.0r0.ext2.bz2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex uml-net 162M Jul 13 04:50 Debian-3.0r2.ext2 > drwxr-xr-x 2 alex uml-net 4.0K Sep 1 18:43 modules > -rwxr-xr-x 1 alex uml-net 177 Aug 6 22:52 myrootstrap > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex uml-net 565 Aug 7 03:50 rootstrap.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex uml-net 567 Aug 7 04:13 rootstrap.conf.etch > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex uml-net 569 Aug 7 04:13 rootstrap.conf.sarge > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex uml-net 543 Aug 7 04:13 rootstrap.conf.sid > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex uml-net 569 Aug 7 04:14 rootstrap.conf.woody > -rwxr-xr-x 1 alex uml-net 740 Sep 11 00:08 uml-run > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex uml-net 512M Sep 16 06:25 uml.etch.ext3 > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex uml-net 512M Aug 28 05:30 uml.sarge.ext3 > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex uml-net 512M Sep 10 23:55 uml.sid.ext3 > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex uml-net 512M Sep 7 05:50 uml.woody.ext3 Okay. > output of: df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda9 6886260 2172600 4363848 34% / > tmpfs 124164 16 124148 1% /dev/shm > /dev/hda11 6989084 2859244 3774808 44% /common > /dev/hda7 4917648 1656728 3011112 36% /smb-server Okay. That all looks okay to me. What is the problem? Please be specific. In order for the above to be correlated you would need to have ls report the file size in blocks with the -s option and to have du report the amount of disk space used in that directory. I think you might be confusing the these commands. 'ls -l' lists the size of the file. 'df' lists the free disk space available by using statfs() which deals with blocks of a fixed size. 'du' (not mentioned) reports the amount of disk blocks used. All three of those are subly different. Try this example: dd bs=1 count=1 of=foo if=/dev/zero seek=500M ls -slh foo 512K -rw-r--r-- 1 bob bob 501M 2005-11-08 00:30 foo du -sh foo 512K foo Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]