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
Odd. I'm not seeing this on CentOS 5.2:
$ echo test >test.txt
$ ls -ls test.txt
4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 rnichols rnichols 5 Mar 11 16:57 test.txt
$ du -h test.txt
4.0K test.txt
$ stat test.txt
File: `test.txt'
Size: 5 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 341h/833d Inode: 4325491 Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 500/rnichols) Gid: ( 500/rnichols)
Access: 2009-03-11 16:57:18.000000000 -0500
Modify: 2009-03-11 16:57:18.000000000 -0500
Change: 2009-03-11 16:57:18.000000000 -0500
$ df .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1 487397840 320075816 142902824 70% /xstore
$ su - -c "tune2fs -l /dev/hdb1" | egrep 'features|size'
Password:
Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Inode size: 128
Everything exactly as expected.
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