On May 3, 2012, at 20:11 , 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? A sparse file will grow when copied, not shrink. -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany