From: BROGUIERE AT TTM DOT thomson-csf DOT com
Subject: B19 - du command - erroneous size estima
16 Sep 1998 15:31:15 -0700
Message-ID: <000ABAD0.MAI*/S=BROGUIERE/O=TTM/PRMD=THOMSON/ADMD=ATLAS/C=FR/.cygnus.gnu-win32@MHS>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com


Small problem, probably easy to fix?
(win95 explorer can be used but require to click on each directory entry to 
get its size, "du -sk *" is easier ...)

Context:
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Beta 19  installed on Windows 4.00.950

Bug:
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Size indicated by the disk usage command "du" is wrong.
An example is given hereafter.
The error ratio (0.5 in the example) is not constant and therefore not 
predictible (range 0.6 to 0.8 for a real full directory).
Note that the size given by "ls" command is always coherent with Windows95 
Explorer display.

Example Trace:
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BASH.EXE-2.01$ pwd/users/gnu/lib
BASH.EXE-2.01$ uname -a
CYGWIN32_95 BROGUI+RE 4.0 19.0 i586 unknown
BASH.EXE-2.01$ ls -l
total 32-rw-r--r--   1 500      everyone    65168 Feb 26  1998 libiberty.a
BASH.EXE-2.01$ du -k *
32      libiberty.a
BASH.EXE-2.01$

Jean-Louis Broguiere
broguiere AT thomson-csf DOT com
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