Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:33:15 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Wayne <testcat2003@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ls -lh show file not displaying correct size Message-ID: <20090131213315.GE75802@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <540878.43866.qm@web33108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <540878.43866.qm@web33108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 31), Wayne said: > Hello, > > I have a db file of FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 that is displaying the wrong size. This is a db file used by my mail filter software to to Bayes Filtering. > If I do an ls -l or ls -lh I get > 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 ? The 256G is correct. It's a sparse file (i.e. there are holes in it). "ls -sk" will print the actual disk space occupied by a file. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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