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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  DN1000 vs DN3500 file size
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Date: 23 Aug 89 13:55:40 GMT
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Hard to say why, but ... what does ls -l say the sizes are? 
If the sizes reported by ls -l match, and the number of blocks
used reported by ls -s is less than you would expect given
the size, then I would guess that the file is probably being
stored as a "sparse" file. I don't have a lot of info on
these files offhand, but when we write a data file that has
a lot of zeros in it the file system seems to be able to
compact the file quite a bit. Try doing a diff on the two
files. If they come out the same, my guess would be that
the file system compacted the file when it copied it.


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