2009/2/15 Rick <ellis@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > In article <60fdb1ad0902151205v6ef67c07v128f0c88f5895240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > Vijay Gill <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that >>the file is a lot smaller. > > Apples and oranges. You get the file *size* with ls and the disk usage > with du. They aren't the same thing. > > -- > http://yosemitenews.info/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > Thanks but I knew that already. I was just curious why 512Mbytes is allocated to a file so small? Also I have provided allocsize which is definitely not 512M! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
