File sizes incorrectly reported (and huge!)

From: Rodolfo J. Paiz (rpaiz_at_simpaticus.com)
Date: 08/22/03

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:08:21 -0600

    Hi, all:

    I have all my music recorded as WAV files on my hard drive, currently
    taking up slightly over 63GB (and correctly reported as such by "du -ms
    /music/wav". The size of each file averages 45MB, although of course there
    are a dozen or soo 200MB monsters. Also, sharing the files via Samba to a
    Windows 2000 computer was working fine.

    Something happened recently (can't think what, but something) and now file
    sizes are incorrectly reporte as being HUGE. For example, correct, then
    incorrect results reported by different incantations of "ls":

    [root@adan wav]# ls -1sh Kansas*
      55M Kansas ~ Best of Kansas ~ 01 ~ Carry on Wayward Son ~ 890B500A.wav
      33M Kansas ~ Best of Kansas ~ 02 ~ Point of Know Return ~ 890B500A.wav
      35M Kansas ~ Best of Kansas ~ 04 ~ Dust in the Wind ~ 890B500A.wav
      93M Kansas ~ Best of Kansas ~ 05 ~ Song for America ~ 890B500A.wav
      40M Kansas ~ Best of Kansas ~ 07 ~ Hold On ~ 890B500A.wav
      35M Kansas ~ Best of Kansas ~ 09 ~ Play the Game Tonight ~ 890B500A.wav
    [root@adan wav]# ls -l Kansas*
    -rwxr--r-- 1 rpaiz rpaiz 1181163340 Aug 3 18:09 Kansas ~ Best of
    Kansas ~ 01 ~ Carry on Wayward Son ~ 890B500A.wav
    -rwxr--r-- 1 rpaiz rpaiz 1375989404 Aug 3 18:09 Kansas ~ Best of
    Kansas ~ 02 ~ Point of Know Return ~ 890B500A.wav
    -rwxr--r-- 1 rpaiz rpaiz 1177207676 Aug 3 18:09 Kansas ~ Best of
    Kansas ~ 04 ~ Dust in the Wind ~ 890B500A.wav
    -rwxr--r-- 1 rpaiz rpaiz 1489319372 Aug 3 18:09 Kansas ~ Best of
    Kansas ~ 05 ~ Song for America ~ 890B500A.wav
    -rwxr--r-- 1 rpaiz rpaiz 1248992316 Aug 3 18:09 Kansas ~ Best of
    Kansas ~ 07 ~ Hold On ~ 890B500A.wav
    -rwxr--r-- 1 rpaiz rpaiz 1378757708 Aug 3 18:09 Kansas ~ Best of
    Kansas ~ 09 ~ Play the Game Tonight ~ 890B500A.wav

    Most Kansas songs are reported as being over 20 times their real size!
    Also, looking at the directory from Windows 2000 reports 1.6TB total use,
    which I think is unreasonable given that it's a 120GB disk, and copying
    files to another machine tries to copy the 1GB+ per song, which is just
    plain WRONG.

    Anything I can do to restore sanity here?

    Thanks! 

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@simpaticus.com
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