12 Mar
2020
12 Mar
'20
1:37 p.m.
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2020-Mar-11 20:53:12 -0400, Steve Nickolas
<usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
I was under the impression that -s simply showed the file size divided by
512 and didn't account for sparseness or compression.
(Of the filesystems I frequently work with, one of them does actually
support sparseness (ProDOS).)
-uso.
I felt -s was a redundant "kindasorta
-l".
Except they are reporting completely different things - consider sparse
files or filesystems (like ZFS) that support compression.