From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jagadeesh Bhaskar P Subject: The du and ls -l Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:54:42 +0530 Message-ID: <1103340281.3800.15.camel@myLinux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux Newbie Hi, In some cases, as have been mentioned in Advanced Programming in Unix Environment, by Richard Stevens, files with holes report different sizes with du -s and ls -l. But how does the reporting of du and ls -l actually differ? What is the fundamental difference between them?? Hoping for a help TIA -- With regards, Jagadeesh Bhaskar P - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs