Timeline for Sparse files/file holes and unexpected block size
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| Jan 9, 2012 at 3:46 | vote | accept | stantona | ||
| Jan 9, 2012 at 3:46 | comment | added | stantona | 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). | |
| Jan 9, 2012 at 2:59 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |