Things look fine to me too; the file is indeed a sparse file:
[14:13:55] mtrudel@demeter:~git $ ls -latr total 417584 [...] drwxrwxr-x 53 mtrudel mtrudel 4096 sep 1 12:45 ./ -rw-rw-r-- 1 mtrudel mtrudel 4000000000 sep 1 12:48 toto.img drwxrwxr-x 9 mtrudel mtrudel 4096 sep 1 14:05 ubuntu-image/ [14:13:56] mtrudel@demeter:~git $ du -hs toto.img 396M toto.img
Things look fine to me too; the file is indeed a sparse file:
[14:13:55] mtrudel@ demeter: ~git $ ls -latr demeter: ~git $ du -hs toto.img
total 417584
[...]
drwxrwxr-x 53 mtrudel mtrudel 4096 sep 1 12:45 ./
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mtrudel mtrudel 4000000000 sep 1 12:48 toto.img
drwxrwxr-x 9 mtrudel mtrudel 4096 sep 1 14:05 ubuntu-image/
[14:13:56] mtrudel@
396M toto.img