Hi,

I ran ls -lh for same tar ball file on RHEL 3 and RHEL 5.3 box.
The sixth column of ls -lh output threw 6.3G on RHEL 5.3 box and
16E on RHEL 3 box. Both the machines have ext3 file system.

Find below the output for RHEL 3 and RHEL 5.3 respectively :

2.0T -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16E Oct 20 10:34 bac.tar.bz2

6.3G -rwxrwSrwx 1 root root 6.3G Oct 20 10:34 bac.tar.bz2

Do we know how 'ls ' deals with larger numbers ?

Thanks,

Is ls aliased to anything on either of the systems?

No, it is not aliased.

What is your configuration that two boxes connect to and can report on the same drive? What is the architecture of the two systems (x86, PPC, sparc, etc)?

If one has a direct connection and the other has a network connection, that can cause confusion? Further, if you have network connections involved, are both systems connecting with the same protocol (NFS, CIFS, Samba, etc). Are both systems net-access clients configured the same? Do they access the net-access server with the same config?

Bonne chance,
~~~ 0;-Dan

We are actually creating backups of /home ; tar it up and save it to a windows xp box.
Both are x86 machines.

Both the machines are over network. RHEL-3 is connected via smbfs & RHEL-5 via cifs.

I did not get net-access part.

RE: "net access"

Over here you have a workstation with files and folders. You add and configure software so that its file system(s) are visible on your LAN. There are various "server" applications available.

Over there you have other workstations. You add and configure software so that it can see, connect with and use the LAN-available files and folders.
There are various "client" applications available and sometimes more than one for any given server.

In this situation, you will have two views of the various files. One view appears at the workstation where the files live physically. The other view appears at the workstations connected over the LAN.

Cheers,
~~~ 0;-Dan

No, I have not done anything like this for our environment.