Re: possible bug in du

[Suran]

Well....it's a working movie with 10 episodes of a tv-series
so it cannnot possible by a sparse file requiring only 8kb
Could it be that ext3 reports the wrong size? Anything I could
do to find out what happenes?
Marcus



Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.