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.
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Dan Nelson
dnel...@allantgroup.com
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