What is my disk usage?
Janos Dohanics
web at 3dresearch.com
Wed Aug 8 10:44:09 PDT 2007
On 8/8/2007, "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
>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
Well, this is all I have in .bash_profile:
$ cat .bash_profile
PS1="[\u@\h \w]\\$ "
export EDITOR=vim
The issue is that du reports twice as much disk usage as du -h or du -k,
and I have no clue why...
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