Why you don't try to use stat
for example
stat ZoZ.vdi | awk '/Blocks/ {print $4 * $7}'
stat ZoZ.vdi
File: `ZoZ.vdi'
Size: 16796172800 Blocks: 32805040 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 804h/2052d Inode: 1315583 Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------) Uid: ( 1001/xxxxx) Gid: ( 1001/xxxxx)
Access: 2012-01-04 09:08:12.259787395 +0100
Modify: 2012-01-04 09:18:41.071801941 +0100
Change: 2012-01-04 09:18:41.071801941 +0100
2012/1/4 Srija <swap_proj...@yahoo.com>
> Hi,
>
> If the file contains the sparse bits then can anybody guide me , how to
> remove those ? For example
> when I am checking file.img [ as below] , it's size is 38G. Basically
> it's size is 93G because of the sparse.
>
> [root@server]# du -sh file.img
> 38G file.img
> [root@server]# du -sh --apparent-size file.img
> 93G file.img
>
> I need the 'du -sh' and 'du-sh --apprent-size ' should be same and ie,
> 38G.
>
> Help is really appreciate.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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