Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes
Rick
ellis at spinics.net
Sun Feb 15 21:56:22 UTC 2009
In article <60fdb1ad0902151205v6ef67c07v128f0c88f5895240 at mail.gmail.com>,
Vijay Gill <fedora-list at redhat.com> 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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