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That explains it perfectly, thanks. You're right, my confusion was that I made the wrong assumption that the default unit for a block was 512 bytes leading me to believe that my default block size was 2048. By running tune2fs, it did indeed show that my default block size is 4096. I wasn't aware that sparse files consist of not storing blocks entirely made of zeroes, a gap in my knowledge. Thanks. (And as for the 13 bytes, I think I may have put a space after one of the input lines).

stantona
– stantona

2012-01-09 03:46:17 +00:00
Commented Jan 9, 2012 at 3:46

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