Re: du How does du work?

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From: Paul Russell
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00

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oka@eesun1.tamu.edu (Oka Setiawan) writes:
> 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.

Traditionally, du gives its answers in 512 byte blocks.  It is more
intuitive for most people to use 1k blocks, thus most `du' variants
offer a `-k' option, to use 1k blocks.  Many people alias `du' to
`du -k'; that may be happening here.

Hope that helps,
Paul.
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Paul.Russell@RustCorp.com.au                  "Engineer? So you drive trains?"
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Date: 1996/11/12
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