On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Peter Vereshagin <pe...@vereshagin.org> wrote: > Hello. > > 2012/06/14 00:23:25 +0400 Peter Vereshagin <pe...@vereshagin.org> => To > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org: > > PV> ot the least how could I see the 'real' size of each of those files, both > ~150M > PV> actulally, with a system command? > > also, 'du' works that way for regular files. But implicitly I wanted about > ls's > key, thanks a lot guys!
Yes, the default for du is the actual disk usage, and "du -A" gives the apparent size. We run an OpenSolaris filer with on-the-fly compression, and I've occasionally had people express confusion after copying a large text file to it and finding the copy to be smaller than the original when viewed with 'du'. ;) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
