differences of disk usage between du and quota binaries
Glen Barber
glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 11:35:06 PST 2009
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,
>
Well, I never really answered the 'why' part of your question -- the
'-h' flag prints 'human readable' output -- ie, in MB instead of
bytes.
--
Glen Barber
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