On 2013-12-05 1:16 AM, David Kelly wrote:
Repeat adding -s to ls. I think that will list the position of EOF. I think you have a sparse file which physically occupies 119k but has massive holes which have yet to be assigned disk blocks.
It's the other way around-- ls -l shows the logical length of the file, and ls -s shows the actual number of blocks used.
E.g. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=sparse count=1 seek=100000000 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (512000 bytes/sec) $ ls -ls sparse 64 -rw-r----- 1 khym wheel 51200000512 Dec 5 09:09 sparse
