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Subject: RE: disk space allocation (du, ls et al?)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:33:46 -0600
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on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:00:57 -0800 Linda Walsh wrote:
>However, the commands like:
>
>   du -s <file>
>-or-
>   ls -s <file>
>
>don't show the file's actual allocation size on disk but
>seem to use a fixed 1k for size. 

the info pages state for these tools:

   If none of the above environment variables are set, the block size
currently defaults to 1024 bytes in most contexts, but this number may
change in the future.  For `ls' file sizes, the block size defaults to
1 byte.

This can be gotten from 'info coreutils' and then going to the node
"Block size".
'info info' will help you out on how to use the info tool.  The man
pages do not include
detailed information on these tools.  Each tool probably has its own way
of adjusting the
block size to use (at least du and ls are different).

'du -B 8k' and 'ls -s --block-size=8k' should give the result in block
sizes of 8k.

:-)
Frodak

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