du reports half of correct file sizes
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Sun Dec 26 00:10:00 GMT 2004
Ross Boulet wrote:
>
> I saw some old items in the archives (circa 2001) but there
> was not much there about this problem. The most recent
> version of coreutils seems to have broken du. The listing
> below illustrates my point:
If you have POSIXLY_CORRECT set in your environment then the default
block size for du is 512 bytes, which is what the posix standard
requires. Use -b or -k if you want bytes or kbytes, respectively.
Brian
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