On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:47 -0400, Felipe Nunez wrote: > > > >Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that > > > the file is a lot smaller. Also I am sure the the cluster size is > not > > >512M (or am I wrong there?). > > In order to explain this behavior I did following test: > > $ echo "hello" > hi.txt > > $ ls -l hi.txt > > -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 6 2009-02-15 18:37 download/hi.txt > > (the size of the file is 6 bytes "hello" + '\n' ) > > $ du hi.txt > > 4.0K hi.txt > > (the size of the block -cluster is a MicroSoft equivalent term- is > 4.0K) > > That explains almost all. (Some data may be in memory in disk cache > and can be some asynchrony with the file system) That doesn't affect the result shown by 'du'. As far as it's concerned, the space is allocated and therefore counts. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
