Nowhere on the stat or du info pages can the user figure out why $ echo>y; stat y File: `y' Size: 1 Blocks: 2 IO Block: 4096 regular file shows Blocks: 2. Ah, I know, stat is counting blocks by 512 bytes, but du counts them as 1024, which indeed must be how big they are as that is how big mkdir x; ls -l x will say. IO Block must be unreacted to what we are talking about here, by the way. Perhaps also delve into what you mean by IO Block on the stat info page. Anyways, the stat info page does not go into block size discussions or footnotes. stat must be like tar where 512 is mentioned. So the onus is on you to say on the stat info and man pages just what block sizes you are talking about, lest we be perceived as, urm, blockheads.
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