> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jurvis lasalle > Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 7:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes? > > > On Sunday, Aug 24, 2003, at 20:31 America/New_York, Rodolfo J. Paiz > wrote: > > > At 8/24/2003 19:07 -0400, you wrote: > >> Sorry, I'm joining this thread way after the fact. The only thing > >> I'll > >> mention is that I *have* seen certain applications zero out a very > >> large > >> filesize in preparation for filling up that space with a series of > >> chunks. Bit-torrent is the *perfect* example of that. Say you > start > >> to > >> download a 500M ISO image. It breaks it into chunks so it can > perform > >> parallel downloads from multiple clients. Even though the total > >> download at any one time may only be a fraction of that size, the > file > >> is reserved at its maximum size. I don't know how it does it, but > it > >> does. :) > >> > >> Does this sound like a possibility? > > > > Not at all... these are standard WAV files, originally ripped from > the > > (original, purchased) music CD. They average 45-50MB, but when I > moved > > them to a second hard drive some of them started getting reported by > > "ls -l" as being roughly 20 times larger (900MB to 1.2GB). Oddly, > "ls > > -sh" reports their sizes correctly, as does "du -h". > > > > Trying to figure out what caused this wrong listing and fix it, > since > > copying the file does take the whole 1.2GB. Also, I share this > folder > > with Windows which reports total usage as 1.6TB instead of the > actual > > 63GB (25x). > > > > > > -- > > Rodolfo J. Paiz > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > Here's a stab in the dark- do you have the SIZE or BLOCKSIZE > environment variable set (esp. when the wav files were originally > "magnified")? > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
let me further explain with a example. Suppose you have a file that is 1024 bytes on linux and you do a ls it will list as 2 block (2 512 byte blocks). You copy this file to a vfat partition to be shared with windows and the allocation units is 5 512 blocks. Now when you do the listing linux list it as 1024 bytes and windows will list it 2560 bytes. Maybe this is what is happening and when you force linux to list using linux units it will list it correctly as 2 blocks. IMHO this what I think. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
