du

Henning, Brian B.Henning at navitaire.com
Tue Mar 16 10:18:49 PST 2004


The only reason why I question it is when I lookup the size in windows
(the directory is shared with samba) I see it as less.
>From bsd: 390     /home/henninb/jpg
>From windows: 372KB windows

Is it because of the share or the change in platform?

thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:33 AM
To: Chris
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: du


On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:55:33AM -0600, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 March 2004 10:53 am, Chris wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 10:51 am, Brian Henning wrote:
> > > does du return the size in KB by default?
> > > thanks
> >
> > You can try du -h
> > That's listed in man du
> 
> Sorry - I forgot to answer - Yes

Actually the answer is 'no, but...' -- by default du tells you the size
in disk blocks, ie. multiples of 512b.  However, the standard
/etc/login.conf on FreeBSD causes the environment setting:

    BLOCKSIZE=K

to be made, causing all the numbers du outputs (unless told otherwise on
the command line) to appear in kilobytes.  This is all quite clearly
explained in the du(1) man page.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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