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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@treehouse.systems

2/28/2026, 1:31:52 AM

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i think what's happening is that ls is reporting the logical file size in the "size" column and the sum of filesystem-reported physical file sizes (with various forms of overhead) in the "total" row

this then combines with XFS doing something weird (not consolidating extents promptly? not sure how XFS works internally) which happens to inflate file sizes under whatever write pattern wget is performing, until wget closes it and i do a mv and the filesystem optimizes the way the file is laid out on the disk

i think ls is wrong and the choice it makes is actively confusing, but it is probably not nearly as noticeable on ext4 or a lot more people would know about this

R @r@glauca.space

2/28/2026, 1:36:18 AM

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@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ yes, this is correct (as far as we know)

it's very obvious with sparse files, even on a "normal" filesystem

(deck@cyndaquil sparsetest)$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1 count=0 seek=4T
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 3.297e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
(deck@cyndaquil sparsetest)$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 deck deck 4398046511104 Feb 28 01:34 test
(deck@cyndaquil sparsetest)$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test2 bs=1 count=100 seek=4T
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
100 bytes copied, 0.000549699 s, 182 kB/s
(deck@cyndaquil sparsetest)$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 deck deck 4398046511104 Feb 28 01:34 test
-rw-r--r-- 1 deck deck 4398046511204 Feb 28 01:35 test2
(deck@cyndaquil sparsetest)$

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