differences of disk usage between du and quota binaries

[Glen Barber]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Nicolas Letellier <nicolas at nicoelro.net> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I use FreeBSD 6.3. I set quota to my fs.
> But, when I print disk usage with du -sh, I have:
>
> root at domain sites $  du -sh folder
> 633M    folder
>
> But, when I print disk usage with quota -u user, I have:
>
> isk quotas for user user (uid 2002):
>     Filesystem   usage   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
>           /var  648264  700000  700000            2963       0       0
>
>
> Why this difference? (633M against 648264)
>

Because 633Mb is 648264 (roughly) bytes.  (648264 / 1024)

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber