On 23/04/2006, at 8:31 PM, Malcolm V wrote:
I'm writing a program to calculate space lost to the difference
between block
size and filesize (Surely this has been done before, but I couldn't
find it
from a quick few googles).
Whilst doing this, I've encountered the below and I'm unsure why it is
happening to some files only.
On an ext3 filesystem some files stat as being one disk block size
larger
then would seem necessary.
This is because one block is used to store an "indirect block",
containing pointers to other blocks. See for example
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ext2fs-Undeletion-10.html
or any book about unix filesystems.
I expect you will find this happens on all files over 12 blocks in
length.
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Martin
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