du and ls show different sizes for the same file
du and ls show different sizes for the same file After uncompressing a file i was confused to see different sizes for the same file with du and ls command When i used du it was showing the size But ls output was showing a different size So i realized these commands works in different ways ls with option -l shows the allocated size but du shows the actual size (amount of space used). If you want to see actual size with ls use -s option. If you use this way you can see both ls and du gives same output, in this case actual size is printer first