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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: du blocksize=512 (Was: Simple AWK question)
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.141658.24978@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:16:58 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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- From the keyboard of aegl@ossi.com (Tony Luck):
- :Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
- :>Can anyone explain WTF POSIX.2 decided that utilities should report
- :>things in demikilobytes instead of real k which we all are more
- :>likely to think in?
- :
- :Suppose you have a file system with zillions of little tiny files (for
- :example /usr/spool/news). You figure that you can keep the disk
- :usage down (and thus the expiry time up) by making the filesystem with
- :a 512 byte block size (or fragment size). Now, if you have a "du" that
- :only thinks in Kbytes, it won't give you the right answer when you want
- :to know how much disk space will be freed up if you blow away all of
- :"alt/useless/bogus/groups".
-
- Are you saying that du's answer should vary depending on f/s geometry???
-
- --tom
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- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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