Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:00:53 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: "Buhl, Josh" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.3.3 on WINNT 4.0SP6: du reports disk usage incorrectly by facto r one half Message-ID: <20011005110053.G13996@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: "Buhl, Josh" , cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:46:09PM +0200, Buhl, Josh wrote: >du (GNU File Utilities version 4.0) reports disk usage with values equal to >0.5 times their actual usage values. > >This bug was reported by Lassi A. Tuura way back in 1998; cf.: > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-09/msg00553.html > >However, in that bug report, du reportedly gave correct values with the -h >flag, which is no longer the case. I couldn't find any follow-ups to the >bug report from 1998. > >I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, so please cc any answers to me. >Thanks! I can't duplicate this behavior. My version of du.exe reports block sizes in 1024 increments. Maybe you need to upgrade your fileutils. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/