From: bruceh AT ns1 DOT ieighty DOT net (Bruce N. Hunsaker)
Subject: Re: du bug, wrong sizes reported.
25 Jan 1998 22:39:22 -0800
Message-ID: <199801260729.AAA17069.cygnus.gnu-win32@ns1.ieighty.net>
References: <19980125170015 DOT 47524 AT mundook DOT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU>
Content-Type: text
To: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> 
> On 23-Jan-1998, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> > 
> > >From: "Bruce N. Hunsaker" <bruceh AT ns1 DOT ieighty DOT net>
> > >
> > >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 -- bruceh AT ieighty DOT net
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