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bug#47085: du: why does 'usage' show prefixes 'Z' or 'Y' if they are dis
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Glenn Golden |
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bug#47085: du: why does 'usage' show prefixes 'Z' or 'Y' if they are disallowed? |
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Date: |
Fri, 12 Mar 2021 03:03:10 -0700 |
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Cyrus-JMAP/3.5.0-alpha0-206-g078a48fda5-fm-20210226.001-g078a48fd |
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, at 21:53, L A Walsh wrote:
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> 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).
>
See coreutils.info Section 14.2 (entitled "du: Estimate file space usage",
second paragraph), and coreutils.info Section 2.3 (entitled "Block size",
first paragraph). Both state that fractional block sizes are rounded up
to the nearest integer.