Sorry, I'm joining this thread way after the fact. The only thing I'll mention is that I *have* seen certain applications zero out a very large filesize in preparation for filling up that space with a series of chunks. Bit-torrent is the *perfect* example of that. Say you start to download a 500M ISO image. It breaks it into chunks so it can perform parallel downloads from multiple clients. Even though the total download at any one time may only be a fraction of that size, the file is reserved at its maximum size. I don't know how it does it, but it does. :)
Does this sound like a possibility?
Not at all... these are standard WAV files, originally ripped from the (original, purchased) music CD. They average 45-50MB, but when I moved them to a second hard drive some of them started getting reported by "ls -l" as being roughly 20 times larger (900MB to 1.2GB). Oddly, "ls -sh" reports their sizes correctly, as does "du -h".
Trying to figure out what caused this wrong listing and fix it, since copying the file does take the whole 1.2GB. Also, I share this folder with Windows which reports total usage as 1.6TB instead of the actual 63GB (25x).
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