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I think its bytes, but the -h option is friendlier --human...

James

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Brendan McAlpine wrote:

> 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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