sure
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 100664896 Apr 26 1996 attributes
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 67110035 Nov 6 1997 filter
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 67108951 Apr 26 1996 headers
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 420 May 28 1998 newsgroups
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 67108941 Apr 26 1996 posted
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 7430 May 28 1998 tinrc
> galeb-Sat09-12:38pm/users/etf/chuka/.tin# du -sk
> 17 .
du counts the actual number of disk blocks in use. Presumably,
"attributes," "filter," "headers," and "posted" are files with
holes in them; the software that created them wrote one block
near the end of the file, and maybe some near the middle; because
no other blocks were written, the filesystem didn't feel the need
to allocate them. If the application asks for a chunk it hasn't
written to, the filesystem will simply return a buffer full of
zeros; when the application finally does write some data there,
then the filesystem will allocate the blocks to that file.
--
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