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Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 16:10:59 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: du reports half of correct file sizes
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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

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