I see -- thanks! By the way, is there a way to shoot down all the zero files in a directory/subdirectory? My gut feeling is that you have found the problem, though I don't know. There are sub-directories in that user directory which were created by a medical imaging software, and there is some chance that these are empty files... Thanks! --- James Wilkinson <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Globe Trotter wrote (about sparse files): > > But wait! Should this not show up under df? > > > > After all, df still shows something like 22GB used in the remote host.... > > I'm not quite sure what you think df should show up, but it is supposed > to show how much space a file actually takes on disk. So if you have a > 500 MB sparse file that only takes up 500 KB of disk space, then df > will, correctly, only report 500 KB (+ whatever else is on disk) as > being in use. > > This example is on ReiserFS, for what it's worth, and there are a few > other files in the partition: > > [james@howells scratch]$ ls -lk sparse > -rw-rw-r-- 1 james james 500000 Jan 22 20:08 sparse > [james@howells scratch]$ df -k . > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdc5 19076532 40040 19036492 1% /media/scratch > > So df reports that about 40 MB is being used, but ls -lk reports a file > of about 500 MB. > > James. > > -- > James Wilkinson | Today Has Been Two Of Those Days. > Exeter Devon UK | -- Mike Andrews > E-mail address: james | > @westexe.demon.co.uk | > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
