[CentOS] differnt results between df and ls
Mogens Kjaer
mk at crc.dk
Thu Mar 29 10:54:23 UTC 2007
Tom Brown wrote:
> 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 ?
Sparse file. The file has holes in it:
# cd /var/log
# ls -lh lastlog
-r-------- 1 root root 577M Mar 29 12:52 lastlog
# du -h lastlog
20K lastlog
Remember to use -S when tar'ing a file like this :-)
Mogens
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