I came across a weird problem this morning. What would cause a file to be reported as 251M for used space and 1.3G for size on disk?<br><br>[root@cc1lnx5 axprac]# ls -sh cafrap_1.dbf; ls -lh cafrap_1.dbf<br><b>251M</b> cafrap_1.dbf<br>

-rw-r----- 1 oraxprac axprac <b>1.3G</b> Apr 15 09:47 cafrap_1.dbf<br>[root@cc1lnx5 axprac]# <br><br><br>I have seen this to a smaller extent with some files but never a variance of this size.<br>This file happens to be an Oracle 11G database table file.<br>

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