Re: file size on disk vs used drastically different

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Author: Shawn Badger
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: file size on disk vs used drastically different
Wow, that was some good information from everyone.
You got to love having people in the know just an email away!!!



On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Shawn Badger <>wrote:

> 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?
>
> [root@cc1lnx5 axprac]# ls -sh cafrap_1.dbf; ls -lh cafrap_1.dbf
> *251M* cafrap_1.dbf
> -rw-r----- 1 oraxprac axprac *1.3G* Apr 15 09:47 cafrap_1.dbf
> [root@cc1lnx5 axprac]#
>
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> I have seen this to a smaller extent with some files but never a variance
> of this size.
> This file happens to be an Oracle 11G database table file.
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