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bug#47085: du: why does 'usage' show prefixes 'Z' or 'Y' if they are dis
From: |
L A Walsh |
Subject: |
bug#47085: du: why does 'usage' show prefixes 'Z' or 'Y' if they are disallowed? |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:53:03 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) |
I thought to display 0 (or 0<magnitude>) for 1st arg by doing:
du -BY, as -B says I can list a unit for scaling, but for
-BY and -BZ I get:
du: -B argument 'Y' too large.
It doesn't even look to see how much space is used, it
immediately returns Y & Z are "too large".
Why are those suffixes listed as valid under the program 'usage'
and manpage, when they are automatically disallowed?
Also something I didn't see as being clear:
I don't see where it says it will always round up to next higher
unit (it may say it somewhere, I just don't see it and was
surprised to see 'du -BT /tmp|hsort -s' show all objects as
being 1.0T and for hsort to show a summary of ~148T
(hsort sorts by human prefixes and has an optional '-s'
switch that shows an additive sum of the sizes).
- bug#47085: du: why does 'usage' show prefixes 'Z' or 'Y' if they are disallowed?,
L A Walsh <=