On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:41:36PM -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: > I'm more confused than ever about the i_blocks (filesize divided by 512) > field. I note that in both the inode and the stat() result, the filesize > in bytes exists, and presumably always has. So why would anyone ever want > to know separately how many 512 byte units of data are in the file? st_blocks shows the actual on-disk size of the file, or at least a reasonable approximation. st_size shows the number of bytes. For a file with holes st_blocks can be much smaller than st_size/512. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
