On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:24:49PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > -Ad'. But I find that the offset of the last line does not match > with the size of the file given by 'du -h'. Why is that? du shows disk usage, which can be different from the size of a file due to the block size of the file system. See man du, --apparent-size.