Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> That's correct in RH9. Is that a bug of du in the coreutils 5.2.1 ? Or
> where am I wrong ?

A 128Mb file occupies more than 128Mb of disk storage, due to filesystem
overhead.  For example, when stored on an ext3 filesystem the reported
disk storage is 134352896 bytes.  And non-integer quantities are rounded
up to the next higher unit, as documented in the manual.

Andreas.

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