Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 06:35:01 -0400 From: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com> To: 'Cynic' <cynic@mail.cz>, Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Question About DU Message-ID: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C01BECD6B@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com>
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Try du -k. That's what works on my solaris machines.
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From: Cynic [mailto:cynic@mail.cz]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 9:40 PM
To: Brendan McAlpine; freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Question About DU
:: $ 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=AD
:: 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=AD
:: erwise getbsize(3) is used to determine the preferred block size. =
Par=AD
:: 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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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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