On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:20:52 +1100 Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01Apr2015 08:07, Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Thanks to both Cameron and you, Bob! > > > >After the transfer, here is what we have, on that filesystem: > > > >$ du -sh kmeans --apparent-size > >154G kmeans > > > >$ du -sh kmeans > >628G kmeans > > That looks backwards to me, presuming you have sparse files? > Although "man du" is, frankly, vague about what this means, I'd imagine from > the description that it tallies the byte sizes of the files; du normally > tallies "blocks" from the st_blocks stat field, which reports allocated blocks > (which is lower than st_size/st_blksize if the file is sparse). > > So how you get a smaller "du" with --apparent-size escapes me. You are duing > the same directory, yes? Not the source and copied directories? Yes, it is on the same directory of the remote Inselon FS mounted as a cifs mount on a F21 system. The same command on my local disk (F21 machine, ext4 FS) yields: $ du -sh kmeans --apparent-size 154G kmeans $ du -sh kmeans 156G kmeans > I'm still wondering if you do have sparse files; images generally are not. I don't know but I assume I do. How does one find out if one does. Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
