From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-01-29T01:41:55+09:00
Subject: Re: FileTest.size? vs du -b

Curious Person wrote:

> Er... something doesn't add up.  BTW, when I verify the filesizes with ls -
> al, it matches what FileTest.size returns.  Does anyone know what's going 
> on here?  Is du inaccurate?

'du' reports the disk usage, or how much space on the disk is allocated 
to this file. That will almost always be larger than the actual file 
size, depending on how the underlying file system works.