Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:32:31 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: du Message-ID: <20040316173231.GA60404@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200403161055.33013.racerx@makeworld.com> References: <BAY15-DAV9wUHZPqxv200019f6f@hotmail.com> <200403161053.46311.racerx@makeworld.com> <200403161055.33013.racerx@makeworld.com>
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:55:33AM -0600, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 March 2004 10:53 am, Chris wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 10:51 am, Brian Henning wrote:
> > > does du return the size in KB by default?
> > > thanks
> >
> > You can try du -h
> > That's listed in man du
>=20
> Sorry - I forgot to answer - Yes
Actually the answer is 'no, but...' -- by default du tells you the
size in disk blocks, ie. multiples of 512b. However, the standard
/etc/login.conf on FreeBSD causes the environment setting:
BLOCKSIZE=3DK
to be made, causing all the numbers du outputs (unless told otherwise
on the command line) to appear in kilobytes. This is all quite
clearly explained in the du(1) man page.
Cheers,
Matthew
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