Re: duHow does du work?

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From: Wayne Wood
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 00:00

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Oka Setiawan wrote:

> I have another intriguing fact/question about du.
> Why in one of my machine, du will show twice the disk usage than it should?
> In another machine (different file server and everything) du works fine.
> both running solaris.
> That really freak me out.
> 
> Oka Setiawan
> oka@tamu.edu
> http://ee.tamu.edu/~oka

possibility of one filesystem using 512-blocks and the other using
1024-blocks

-- woody

There is no problem in the realm of human experience that cannot
be adequately resolved by the judicious application of explosives.

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From: Wayne Wood <woody@hpptc3.rose.hp.com>
Subject: Re: duHow does du work?
Date: 1996/11/11
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