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Re: du bug, wrong sizes reported.
- To: fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU
- Subject: Re: du bug, wrong sizes reported.
- From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 04:55:26 PST
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
>Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:53:58 +1100
>From: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
>To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@hotmail.com>
>Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: Re: du bug, wrong sizes reported.
>
>On 25-Jan-1998, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>:
>> >
>> >On 23-Jan-1998, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> "Bruce N. Hunsaker" <bruceh@ns1.ieighty.net>:
>> >> >
>> >> >du reports sizes in 2k blocks. It should report sizes using
>> >> >a block size of 1k.
>> >
>> >> No. The default block size should be 512 bytes.
>> >
>> >Why?
>>
>> du --help
>>
>> type this command to get the answer.
>
>According to `man du' on Linux (corrsponding to GNU fileutils 3.12),
>it should report sizes using a block size of 1k, unless the environment
>variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, in which case the default block size
>should be 512 bytes.
OK. I just took a look at the fileutils.info file and it says the same
thing. However, du --help doesn't really say, other than inferences
with the descriptions of the -k and -m switches. And, when I looked at
du on AIX UNIX it reported 512k blocks and no POSIXLY_CORRECT
environment variable.
>
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Garp.
>
Thanks, Fergus, for setting me straight.
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