On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 23:11 +0000, Vijay Gill wrote: > 2009/2/15 Rick <el...@spinics.net>: > > In article <60fdb1ad0902151205v6ef67c07v128f0c88f5895...@mail.gmail.com>, > > Vijay Gill <fedora-list@redhat.com> wrote: > > > >>Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that > >>the file is a lot smaller. > > > > Apples and oranges. You get the file *size* with ls and the disk usage > > with du. They aren't the same thing. > > > > -- > > http://yosemitenews.info/ > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@redhat.com > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > > > > Thanks but I knew that already. I was just curious why 512Mbytes is > allocated to a file so small? Also I have provided allocsize which is > definitely not 512M!
That could be because you're using XFS. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
