From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2011-01-06T02:27:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the actual size of a sparse file



On Jan 5, 10:04 am, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
> 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

True, but I'd like to use pure Ruby (not system calls) if possible, at
least for *nix systems. Or will this require an extension?

Regards,

Dan