On May 3, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Florian Philipp wrote:

> Am 03.05.2012 20:01, schrieb aurfalien:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I never really paid attention to this but a file on an NFS mount is
>> showing 64M in size, but when copying the file to a local drive, it
>> shows 2.5MB in size.
>> 
>> My NFS server is hardware Raided with a volume stripe size of 128K
>> were the volume size is 20TB, my local disk is about 500GB.
>> 
>> Is this due to my stripe size?
>> 
>> Nuggets are appreciated.
>> 
>> - aurf
> 
> Is it a sparse file? What exact command did you use to calculate the
> file size?
> 
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
> 


Hi,

Its a binary (non sparse file) and I used du -hs to determine its size.

Also Konqeuror as well.

Other OSs do the same thing like Finder in OSX and Exploder in Windows.


- aurf