From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-01-06T02:04:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the actual size of a sparse file


On Jan 5, 2011, at 08:37 , Daniel Berger wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How do you get the true size of a sparse file? Using /var/log/lastlog
> on Ubuntu as an example I see this with "ls -lh"

If you're on ubuntu you should be able to provide extra options to du:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file