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Docker: du vs ls?

uhh... what? du -h thinks 8GB but ls -h thinks 64GB?

ANSWERED BELOW -- see gist Comments

➜  Jays-MBP:com.docker.driver.amd64-linux  ls -al
total 16430392
drwxr-xr-x@ 13 jhannah  staff          416 Mar  7 14:06 .
drwxr-xr-x  23 jhannah  staff          736 Mar  7 14:07 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 jhannah  staff  68719476736 Mar  9 12:29 Docker.raw
-rw-r--r--   1 jhannah  staff        65536 Mar  9 09:36 console-ring
-rw-r--r--   1 jhannah  staff        55296 Mar  7 14:06 database.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 jhannah  staff         3443 Mar  7 14:06 hyperkit.json
-rw-r--r--   1 jhannah  staff            5 Mar  7 14:06 hyperkit.pid
-rw-r--r--   1 jhannah  staff            0 Feb  2 12:27 lock
drwxr-xr-x   2 jhannah  staff           64 Feb  2 12:27 log
-rw-r--r--   1 jhannah  staff           36 Feb  2 12:27 nic1.uuid
-rw-r--r--   1 jhannah  staff            3 Mar  7 14:06 pid
-rw-r--r--   1 jhannah  staff          282 Mar  7 14:06 syslog
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jhannah  staff           12 Mar  7 14:06 tty -> /dev/ttys000
➜  Jays-MBP:com.docker.driver.amd64-linux  du -h
  0B    ./log
7.8G    .
➜  Jays-MBP:com.docker.driver.amd64-linux  ls -alh Docker.raw
-rw-r--r--@ 1 jhannah  staff    64G Mar  9 12:30 Docker.raw

More info:

  • MacOS 10.13.3 (17D102)
  • Docker Version 17.12.0-ce-mac55 (23011)
➜ pwd
/Users/jhannah/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux
➜ uname -a
Darwin Jays-MacBook-Pro.local 17.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.4.0: Sun Dec 17 09:19:54 PST 2017; root:xnu-4570.41.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
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