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Re: command "du" reports wrong size ?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: command "du" reports wrong size ? |
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Sun, 02 Oct 2005 16:08:36 +0200 |
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Steven <address@hidden> writes:
> That's correct in RH9. Is that a bug of du in the coreutils 5.2.1 ? Or
> where am I wrong ?
A 128Mb file occupies more than 128Mb of disk storage, due to filesystem
overhead. For example, when stored on an ext3 filesystem the reported
disk storage is 134352896 bytes. And non-integer quantities are rounded
up to the next higher unit, as documented in the manual.
Andreas.
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