From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHfBm-0007Nm-2z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:31:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHfBk-0007NO-N2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:31:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46837 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KHfBk-0007NL-Ff for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:31:00 -0400 Received: from mail.dm.unipi.it ([131.114.72.118]:58005) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KHfBk-0006U5-0l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:31:00 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dm.unipi.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142B040BB1 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:30:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.dm.unipi.it ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.dm.unipi.it [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id umbzHq5kOXfR for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:30:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (85-18-66-24.ip.fastwebnet.it [85.18.66.24]) by mail.dm.unipi.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36C5402BA for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:30:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4878B1F6.9010700@email.it> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:30:30 +0200 From: Pietro Battiston MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Small bug in documentation Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you take the file qemu-img.texi and look under "fmt" option, and more precisely under "raw", you read: Use "qemu-img info" to know the real size used by the image or "ls -ls" on Unix/Linux. Actually, on my system (Ubuntu 8.04, ext3 filesystem), "ls -ls" gives the _fake_ size (the one reported as "virtual size" in qemu-img output). I think this is a mistake, or maybe "ls"' behaviour is not so standard. Pietro Battiston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIeLH0cZVtR82bmAYRAiGSAKDDcZSKIYuur6pQ9UbojD1rlHO/IgCfbM4s K/epGzxr6GhYflAemwRVjHg= =Iqs1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----