From:	evans AT aps DOT anl DOT gov (Ken Evans)
Subject:	Re: du does not find all directories
6 Feb 1997 12:40:59 -0800 :
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"SK" == Scott Kempf <scottk AT utig DOT ig DOT utexas DOT 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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