Fwd: strange strange problem! (please help!!)
Globe Trotter
itsme_410 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 22 22:57:08 UTC 2005
I see -- thanks! By the way, is there a way to shoot down all the zero files in
a directory/subdirectory?
My gut feeling is that you have found the problem, though I don't know. There
are sub-directories in that user directory which were created by a medical
imaging software, and there is some chance that these are empty files...
Thanks!
--- James Wilkinson <james at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Globe Trotter wrote (about sparse files):
> > But wait! Should this not show up under df?
> >
> > After all, df still shows something like 22GB used in the remote host....
>
> I'm not quite sure what you think df should show up, but it is supposed
> to show how much space a file actually takes on disk. So if you have a
> 500 MB sparse file that only takes up 500 KB of disk space, then df
> will, correctly, only report 500 KB (+ whatever else is on disk) as
> being in use.
>
> This example is on ReiserFS, for what it's worth, and there are a few
> other files in the partition:
>
> [james at howells scratch]$ ls -lk sparse
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 james james 500000 Jan 22 20:08 sparse
> [james at howells scratch]$ df -k .
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdc5 19076532 40040 19036492 1% /media/scratch
>
> So df reports that about 40 MB is being used, but ls -lk reports a file
> of about 500 MB.
>
> James.
>
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