From: bruceh@ns1.ieighty.net (Bruce N. Hunsaker) Subject: Re: du bug, wrong sizes reported. 25 Jan 1998 22:39:22 -0800 Message-ID: <199801260729.AAA17069.cygnus.gnu-win32@ns1.ieighty.net> References: <19980125170015.47524@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Content-Type: text To: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > > On 23-Jan-1998, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > > >From: "Bruce N. Hunsaker" > > > > > >du reports sizes in 2k blocks. It should report sizes using > > >a block size of 1k. > > Why? I'm going from memory here, but It just seems that SOLARIS, AIX, HPUX used this as the default. > > > No. The default block size should be 512 bytes. > > Why? This may be true for strict POSIX conformance, however du -k and du (default) are still wrong (both showing file sizes as the number of 2k blocks. --- Bruce Hunsaker -- bruceh@ieighty.net - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".