[CentOS] Re: differnt results between df and ls

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:07:36 -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:

On 3/29/07, Tom Brown tom@ng23.net wrote:

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Hi

this is more than likely a general linux question but on a CentOS4 box whats going on here?

# ls -al foo.txt -r--r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 1373149856 Mar 28 04:34 foo.txt

# du -sh foo.txt 808M foo.txt

any ideas ?

Well, this is definitely NOT a general Linux question unless you can show it happens on other Linux platforms.

Sparse files are not unique to Linux. They exist in NTFS and others. They are not OS dependent but rather applications create them. I bet you have such files on your system. Look at /var/log/lastlog for example.

Akemi