On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 01:18:20PM -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Ian Kilgore wrote: > > >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:09:10AM -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > >>Anyone know why the dd copy of size 6G is not the same size > >>as the 10G partition? > >> > >>Thanks Joe > >>-- > >>Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina > >>jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map > >>generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml > >>Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! > > > >Is it a sparse file? > > Is the file made by dd sparse? > > I don't know. How would I tell? > > It's a copy of a defragmented partition of about 3G of files > followed by 7G of NULLs.
I think you can compare the result of running 'ls -lh' on the file to running 'du -sh'. They should differ. Owen -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
