Subject: Re: du bug, wrong sizes reported.
From: [email-masked] (Bruce N. Hunsaker)

25 Jan 1998 22:39:22 -0800
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To: [email-masked] (Fergus Henderson)
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> 
> On 23-Jan-1998, Earnie Boyd <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > 
> > >From: "Bruce N. Hunsaker" <[email-masked]>
> > >
> > >du reports sizes in 2k blocks.  It should report sizes using
> > >a block size of 1k.
> 
> Why?

I'm going from memory here, but It just seems that SOLARIS,
AIX, HPUX used this as the default.
> 
> > No.  The default block size should be 512 bytes.
> 
> Why?
This may be true for strict POSIX conformance, however du -k
and du (default) are still wrong (both showing file sizes as the
number of 2k blocks.
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Bruce Hunsaker -- [email-masked]
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