Hi Drew,
I have tried to create some files of myself, with 'spaces' in them
(holes?), but they don't act like this. So could you please explain what
'sparse' means, and the 'trick' to create them?
Thanks,
bogdan
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Drew Eckhardt wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >(17:13) bgd@(bgd)[~/temp] ls -alsh my_file
> >19120 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bgd 763M Jul 29 16:56 my_file
> >(17:13) bgd@(bgd)[~/temp] du -sh my_file
> > 19M my_file
> >
> > So the 'ls -alsh' shows a file in size of 763M, but 19M of sectors are
> >really 'occupied'. Can someone explain, please?
>
> unix files can be sparse.
>
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