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