Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I noticed something unusual today. >> >> If I "du" a small file (couple of bytes) in CentOS 5, it tells me the >> file is using 8kb, while I was expecting 4kb which is the block size >> I'm using. >> >> I tried this on several CentOS 5 machines, both x86_64 and i386: >> >> $ echo test >test.txt >> $ ls -l test.txt >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 filbranden filbranden 5 Mar 11 17:24 test.txt >> $ du -h test.txt >> 8.0K test.txt >> > <snip> > >> I could not find any differences that would explain the behaviour. >> Have you seen this before? Can you reproduce it on your systems? Do >> you know how to get the CentOS 4 behaviour? >> > > strange. > I don't reproduce on an x86_64 centos 5 machine: > [nthierry at localhost ~]$ echo test >test.txt > [nthierry at localhost ~]$ ls -l test.txt > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nthierry nthierry 5 Mar 11 22:44 test.txt > [nthierry at localhost ~]$ du -h test.txt > 4.0K test.txt > > I'm pretty sure I did nothing special when making the fs. > > HTH > I did the same test but my du -h test.txt gives 8.0K test.txt I am running linux mirrored drives, thus in one respect it is actually using 2 times 4.0K - once per drive?? Rob > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 121 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090311/bd34b5f9/attachment-0003.vcf>