Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 03:39:51 +0200 From: Cynic <cynic@mail.cz> To: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>, <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question About DU Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010809033754.00b4f558@mail.cz> In-Reply-To: <B7975E38.2BDFD%bmcalpine@macconnect.com> References: <3B71ABF3.A09D8E7C@dambiec.com>
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:: $ man du
:: The du utility displays the file system block usage for each file argu=AD
:: ment and for each directory in the file hierarchy rooted in each directo=
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:: ry argument. If no file is specified, the block usage of the hierarchy
:: rooted in the current directory is displayed. If the -k flag is speci=AD
:: fied, the number of 1024-byte blocks used by the file is displayed, oth=
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:: erwise getbsize(3) is used to determine the preferred block size. Par=
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:: tial numbers of blocks are rounded up.
...
:: -h "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
:: Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte
At 03:23 8/9/2001, Brendan McAlpine wrote the following:
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>How does the DU command measure disk space? Does it return results in 1K
>block files?
>
>ie., in the following example
>
>bash-2.01$ du -s mrtg
>3199 mrtg
>
>Does this mean that my mrtg folder is 3199K big?
>
>TIA
>
>Brendan
>
>
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cynic@mail.cz
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And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files
were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files.
- Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7=20
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