file size different from ls to du

From: Bogdan TARU (bgd_at_icomag.de)
Date: 07/29/03

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    Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:19:07 +0200 (CEST)
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            Hi everyone,

     I have sort of a newbie question, but that I cannot explain myself. I get
    some large files in 'ls -al', but when I 'measure' them with 'du', the
    size is much small. Example:

    (17:13) bgd@(bgd)[~/temp] ls -alsh my_file
    19120 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bgd 763M Jul 29 16:56 my_file
    (17:13) bgd@(bgd)[~/temp] du -sh my_file
     19M my_file

     So the 'ls -alsh' shows a file in size of 763M, but 19M of sectors are
    really 'occupied'. Can someone explain, please?

     Thanks,
     bogdan

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