What is my disk usage?

Eric Crist mnslinky at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 10:09:55 PDT 2007


On Aug 8, 2007, at 11:21 AMAug 8, 2007, Janos Dohanics wrote:

>
> du is acting strange on my system:
>
> # du /usr/X11R6
> 4       /usr/X11R6/share/locale
> 8       /usr/X11R6/share
> 12      /usr/X11R6
>
> # du -h /usr/X11R6
> 2.0K    /usr/X11R6/share/locale
> 4.0K    /usr/X11R6/share
> 6.0K    /usr/X11R6
>
> # du -k /usr/X11R6
> 2       /usr/X11R6/share/locale
> 4       /usr/X11R6/share
> 6       /usr/X11R6
>
> This seems to be happening only after I have sudo'd myself. du reports
> consistent numbers if I run it as myself or if I su first.
>
> This is a  FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE system with snapshots enabled.
>

I don't get it, what's wrong?  Things look normal to me...

Eric Crist


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