On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:00:24PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:
> > > So much for gzip's compression ratio - I am deeply disappointed.
> Well, a good percentage of those "binaries" are actually DASD images - ie,
> disk images. They may contain some binary|ies, but as far as I can see, they
> would be sparse files. So they should compress a lot better than that.
ah, true then,
but sparse files don't take the diskspace of the size they report.
and du only reports the actual diskspace of sparse files not their size
(which is reported by ls)
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