du does not find all directories

Ken Evans evans@aps.anl.gov
Thu Feb 6 21:51:00 GMT 1997


"GB" == Gary Browning <Gary.Browning@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

 GB> I do not have gnu-win32 in front of me right now but typically
 GB> the 'du' command has a '-k' flag that reports the sizes in
 GB> Kbytes.  To verify that this is working, try:
    
 GB>    du -sk large_file ls -l large_file

 GB> FYI, last time I used this on gnu-win32 (I do not remember which
 GB> release), I still was not convinced it was correct.

 GB> - Gary

    Here goes:

C:\WINDOWS>dir system.bad

 Volume in drive C is SEAGATE
 Volume Serial Number is 155D-07CF
 Directory of C:\WINDOWS

SYSTEM   BAD       994,684  11-17-96  3:06p SYSTEM.BAD
         1 file(s)        994,684 bytes
         0 dir(s)     264,503,296 bytes free

C:\WINDOWS>du system.bad
486     system.bad

C:\WINDOWS>ls system.bad
system.bad

C:\WINDOWS>ls -l system.bad
-rw-r--r--   1 500      everyone   994684 Nov 17 15:06 system.bad

C:\WINDOWS>du -sk system.bad
486     system.bad

C:\WINDOWS>

     And it still doesn't get all the bytes and directories, but it
looks like 2K is the magic number, -k or not.

	-Ken

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