Re^2: Usage of a sparse file

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Re^3: Usage of a sparse file by mishikal (Novice) on Mar 11, 2013 at 16:17 UTC
Hi, as I noted in my original post,the information retrieved from stat is not usable, as it returns the blocks used by the full size of the sparse file, not actual usage size Thanks though!	[reply]
Re^4: Usage of a sparse file by aitap (Curate) on Mar 11, 2013 at 16:37 UTC
Isn't `blocksblocksize = (stat $file)[11]512` the actual used size? `$ ls -lh sparse_file -rw-r--r-- 1 aitap aitap 101M Mar 11 20:30 sparse_file $ du -h sparse_file 1,1M sparse_file $ du -B 1 sparse_file 1060864 sparse_file $ perl -E'say ((stat shift)[12]*512)' sparse_file 1060864` [download] Sorry if my advice was wrong.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Usage of a sparse file by mishikal (Novice) on Mar 20, 2013 at 01:28 UTC
Hm, that works. I can grab the blocksize as well, and divide by 8 to get down to 512. Thanks!	[reply]