[clue-tech] ls -l and ls -s reporting different sizes

Jed S. Baer cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net
Mon Nov 3 18:44:07 MST 2008


On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:27:26 -0700 (MST)
David L. Willson wrote:

> I've seen slight differences before, but this is ridiculous!  ls -l and
> ls -s are reporting dramatically different sizes for this file.  What
> do you make of this?  How do ls -l and ls -s calculate sizes?

Just a guess, but maybe that's a sparse file.

jed


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