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 <badger.shawn@gmail.com>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?
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> [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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