Re: ls reports incorrect file size compared to what debugfs reports for ext3 filesystem

[Matthew Woehlke]

Chris Weston wrote:
> I'm trying debug an issue with my one of my disks in my system. I
> have an ext3 file system mounted and ls -l is reporting an impossible
> size for two of the files: log_1848_1239927341.core and
> log_1848_1239927341.core~. The size is 98P. This partition
> (/dev/sdb2) is only a few GB in size.

Maybe the file is sparse? What does 'stat log_1848_1239927341.core' have 
to say?

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