Comment by SebM
You are absolutely right : $ du --help | grep apparent --apparent-size print apparent sizes, rather than disk usage; although the apparent size is usually smaller, it may be -b, --bytes equivalent to...
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Looks like an ordinary [sparse file](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file). du reports "disk usage" in other words this file occupies just 64KiB on disk. Most of it is not allocated and should...
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Yes, the real file size is `967472298` $ python -c "print 967472298.0/2**20" 922.653482437 And here is what my Ubuntu sees through sshfs : $ df -hT ~/jollaNemoHome Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use%...
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Maybe gigabyte digit is ignored by shell, because if you divide 967290299 by 1048576 you get 922,48 ~ 923M. Must fix this immedieate.
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@alloj This "967290299" number is contained inside the file name. My question is why does `du` report a size of 64KiB ?
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Hi, When "rsyncing" the DCIM directory to my SD card, I noticed the ~/android_storage/DCIM/.thumbnails/.thumbdata3--1967290299 (anormally big) file was being transfered but what I don't understand is...
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