On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 07:43:42 -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote: > I was testing UDF on CDRW yesterday and noticed that du and ls do not > agree on the size of /var/log/lastlog. This is an ext3 file system. > > # du -s /var/log/lastlog > 52 /var/log/lastlog > > # ls -l /var/log/lastlog > -r-------- 1 root root 19136220 Jun 8 06:32 /var/log/lastlog -snip- Sort of a Linux related FAQ. A hint to get you on the right track: cp --sparse=never /var/log/lastlog /var/tmp du -h /var/tmp/lastlog
