Re: Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 23:11 +0000, Vijay Gill wrote:
>  2009/2/15 Rick <ellis(a)spinics.net&gt;:
>  > In article <60fdb1ad0902151205v6ef67c07v128f0c88f5895240(a)mail.gmail.com&gt;,
>  > Vijay Gill  <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  >>Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that
>  >>the file is a lot smaller.
>  >
>  > Apples and oranges. You get the file *size* with ls and the disk usage
>  > with du. They aren't the same thing.
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>  Thanks but I knew that already. I was just curious why 512Mbytes is
>  allocated to a file so small? Also I have provided allocsize which is
>  definitely not 512M! 
That could be because you're using XFS.

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