On 2015-06-11 Simon Budig <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Maintainer,
> The -size option to find behaves wrongly for the 'M' units. Not sure what is > going on there: > simon@mezzanine:/tmp/test$ dd if=/dev/zero of=fump.bin bs=1M count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.00309158 s, 339 MB/s > simon@mezzanine:/tmp/test$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bla.bin bs=512k count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 524288 bytes (524 kB) copied, 0.00147233 s, 356 MB/s > simon@mezzanine:/tmp/test$ find . -size 1024k > ./fump.bin > simon@mezzanine:/tmp/test$ find . -size 1M > . > ./fump.bin > ./bla.bin > I expect that both find invocations are equivalent and should give the > exact same results. The manpage specifies that 'M' are units > of 1048576 = 1024 * 1024 = 1024k bytes. It is totally unexpeced to me > that this also returns the (smaller) bla.bin file. [...] Hello, How many units sized one Megabyte each is a 512k sized file using? a) 0 b) 1 c) something else Obviously b. It uses some space, so it cannot be a). OTOH: How many units sized one Kilobyte each is a 512k sized file using? a) exactly 512 b) something else cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
