From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: anupam.kapoor@gmail.com (anupam.kapoor at gmail.com) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:52:24 +0530 Subject: SIze of a file shows 124 GB while available size is less than 16 GB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <87h9vksd3e.fsf@fatcat.parallelwireless> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org >>>>> [2015-01-21T14:37:39+0530]: "manty kuma" (manty-kuma): ,----[ manty-kuma ] | There is a file that I generated which is showing 124 GB(ls -l) size. | Whereas the actual available memory on the partition is less than 16 GB. `---- sparse file probably, for example, create a 10T file: ,----[ ] | anupam at fatcat quick-hacks % dd if=/dev/zero of=a-large-sparse-file bs=1024k count=0 seek=10485760 | 0+0 records in | 0+0 records out | 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 5.8346e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s | anupam at fatcat quick-hacks % ls -lh a-large-sparse-file | -rw-r--r-- 1 anupam users 10T Jan 21 14:49 a-large-sparse-file | anupam at fatcat quick-hacks % `---- --- thanks anupam