In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Olof Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't know the answer to this question for sure but in UNIX in general you >can have files with "holes" in them. If you create a file and move the file >position pointer 2 billion steps forward and write one byte your file will >be reported as 2 gig big
By "ls", but not by "du". du will report the _actual_ size. >This means that du will report it as being 2 gig but df which uses other >information will report the actual amount if disk space used and they might >not add up. Nope. Mike.
