du does not find all directories
Ken Evans
evans@aps.anl.gov
Thu Feb 6 10:01:00 GMT 1997
"SK" == Scott Kempf <scottk@utig.ig.utexas.edu> writes:
>> I find that du finds 335637 (presumably times 512) Bytes on my
>> hard drive.
SK> On my win95 system, the conversion is 2K not 512. I got burned
SK> by the same thing last weekend and I've used enough different
SK> du's to know better.
SK> Find a large file and do:
SK> ls -l large_file du -s large_file
SK> This usually helps (unless it's sparse :-).
Thanks, will try that, but even at 2K it's only getting 30% of
the files and is missing directories (apparently including the one
that is using all my space :-).
-Ken
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