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How to show actual size and allocated size on disk of a file in Ubuntu?

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I want to know both of them. It's like when you click properties of a file in Windows, it will shows two sizes (actual size and size on disk). How do I do that in Ubuntu?

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answered 3 Years ago entmpy · Accepted Answer

I can only answer for command line.

To show the actual size of the file:

du -b "file"

To show the allocated size of the file on disk: (= actual size rounded up to whole block size)

du -B 1 "file"