On Mar 29, 2007, at 6:48, Tom Brown 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 This is probably a sparse file. What does a "du -sh --apparent-size" report? Alfred