[SOLVED] How to list true size of files with holes

bigteks · 08-11-2011, 05:51 PM

I don't think 'ls' has a flag for this. Is there a command or simple script to list files with actual disk space consumed for each - in other words the thin or sparse size, as opposed to what 'ls' reports?

syg00 · 08-11-2011, 06:34 PM

Check out the wikipedia article.

GlennsPref · 08-11-2011, 06:34 PM

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du

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Hope this helps. Regards Glenn

du is disk-usage, there is another df, disk-free. ;-)

pljvaldez · 08-11-2011, 06:38 PM

Maybe this will help a bit. No specific solution, but it does show blocks used in ls -ls

http://administratosphere.wordpress....t-why-and-how/