Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41CE0193.C0740AE0@dessent.net> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 16:10:59 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Subject: Re: du reports half of correct file sizes References: <009a01c4eadb$43448d40$6400000a@RossLap> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Ross Boulet wrote: > > I saw some old items in the archives (circa 2001) but there > was not much there about this problem. The most recent > version of coreutils seems to have broken du. The listing > below illustrates my point: If you have POSIXLY_CORRECT set in your environment then the default block size for du is 512 bytes, which is what the posix standard requires. Use -b or -k if you want bytes or kbytes, respectively. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/