What is my disk usage?

[Chuck Swiger]

On Aug 8, 2007, at 9:21 AM, 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.
>
> Any ideas?

Presumably the accounts which have consistent results have something  
like:

     setenv  BLOCKSIZE K

...or:

     export BLOCKSIZE=K

...configured in their shell.

-- 
-Chuck