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In comp.unix.programmer Oka Setiawan <oka@eesun1.tamu.edu> wrote:
: In article <55u79a$n5o@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
: lbliao <lbliao@alumnae.caltech.edu> wrote:
: >How does du work? How does it descend down the filesystem and get the name
: >of each file? Is there a command that can recursively descend the file system
: >and give the name of the file to do something to? The other option of piping
: >or storing may be RAM or harddisk intensive.
: ---
: 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.

It depends on whether you're du-ing by blocks (which are 512 bytes) or
by kilobytes which are 1024 bytes.


: Oka Setiawan
: oka@tamu.edu
: http://ee.tamu.edu/~oka


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