From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@...>
Date: 2003-03-03T02:19:11+09:00
Subject: Re: FileTest.size? vs du -b

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:42:03 +0900, ahoward <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> pisze:

> all you can really count on is that
> 
>   du file >= stat.size file

You can't because on some filesystems files can have physical holes
in them which read as 0 and don't take space (seek & write to create
such a file).

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