Re: possible bug in du

[Andreas Schwab]

Suran <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden:/home/incomming/encoded$ du -h Standalone1.avi
> 8,0K    Standalone1.avi
> ^ ^ ^ ^
>
>
> address@hidden:/home/incomming/encoded$ ls -l Standalone1.avi
> -rw-r--r--  1 fox mldonkey 1819156788 2005-01-23 05:39 Standalone1.avi
>                             ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

You have a sparse file that is nearly empty.  There's nothing wrong with
this.

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1 seek=1819156787 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1 byte (1 B) copied, 0.000117331 seconds, 8.5 kB/s
$ ls -l foo 
-rw-r--r--  1 schwab suse 1819156788 Jan 23 16:29 foo
$ du -h foo
12K     foo

Andreas.

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