On 3/29/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:07:36 -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > > > On 3/29/07, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote: > >> > >> 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 > > 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. Oh, right. (sheepish :-) My lastlog is ls -l at 146584 but du's at 36K. (sigh) mhr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070329/4f528723/attachment-0004.html>