-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Miguel Barão on 10/19/2006 9:47 AM: > This not a bug but rather an inconsistent output between these two du > options, > which is not documented in the manpages.
Read the info documentation instead, where it talks about sparse files. > > Suppose 'somefile' is a file containing a lot of zeros. > > Then I get: > $ du -k somefile > 12 > $ du somefile > 12 > $ du -b somefile > 4194432 > > It seems that du -b is returning the size of the file, and not the "disk > usage" of that file. As it should, since -b implies --apparent-size, and a sparse file will have a larger apparent size than disk usage size. > > (Using coreutils-5.94, linux on both reiserfs and ext3) Consider upgrading - the latest stable version of coreutils is 6.3. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFOB6T84KuGfSFAYARAhdQAJ4/XcP0EFdt7EIiqXCgImf9iqT28ACeNpus R8OipmCABgFrcWyMNjSO/hQ= =Oyrf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
