From: David Engel (david@ods.com)
Date: 06/02/92 

From: david@ods.com (David Engel)
Subject: Re: ``du'' reports double the real disk usage.  Hmmm.
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1992 02:23:55 GMT

joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
: I've noticed that ``du'' (and, for that matter, ls -l) report double
: the actual disk usage. Is this a bug or are they reporting 512K units?

No bug. Posix requires du to report 512-byte blocks. You can make it
report 1024-byte (1k) blocks with -k. I have it aliases in my .bashrc
like this: alias du='du -k $*'.

David 

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