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Date:      Sun, 1 Feb 2009 00:06:29 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Wayne <testcat2003@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ls -lh show file not displaying correct size
Message-ID:  <20090201000546.N50733@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <540878.43866.qm@web33108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <540878.43866.qm@web33108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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> filter1# ls -l
> total 489024
> -rw-------  1 defang  defang  274992627712 Jan 31 08:33 @@RPTN.db
> filter1# ls -lh
> total 489024
> -rw-------  1 defang  defang   256G Jan 31 08:33 @@RPTN.db
> If I do a du I gecus18-179# du
> 489026  .
> cus18-179# du -h
> 478M    .
> My drive is only 250 Gig and I have it mounted as /var/spool here is my df for the whole file system.
> /dev/ad14s1d    226G    810M    207G     0%    /var/spool
>
> So I know that the 256G is wrong. Can any one tell me what is up with file size ?

no it's right. it's 256G sized but most space unallocated. du shows how 
many space is allocated.

in unix files can have "holes" == blocks that are not allocated to disk
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