Chuck Swiger writes:
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
>>> The default blocksize is 512 bytes.
>>>
>>> The -B option flag lets you tell du to assume a different filesystem
>>> blocksize.
>>
>> so when running freebsd on a hdd with a blocksize of 4k, a simple 'du -h'
>> will
> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:47:54 +
> From: Alexander Best
> Subject: Re: small du(1) question
>
> the blocksize of the underlying filesystem, shouldn't the output of
> 'du -A -B4096' and 'du -A' be the same? just tested this on freebsd 7 and
>
On Oct 19, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
>> The default blocksize is 512 bytes.
>>
>> The -B option flag lets you tell du to assume a different filesystem
>> blocksize.
>
> so when running freebsd on a hdd with a blocksize of 4k, a simple 'du -h' will
> always display incorrect results
On Wed Oct 19 11, Alexander Best wrote:
> On Wed Oct 19 11, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
> > > the du(1) man page states the following:
> > >
> > > "
> > > -B blocksize
> > > Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is
>
On Wed Oct 19 11, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
> > the du(1) man page states the following:
> >
> > "
> > -B blocksize
> > Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is
> > differ-
> > ent from the -k, -m options
On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
> the du(1) man page states the following:
>
> "
> -B blocksize
> Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is differ-
> ent from the -k, -m options or setting BLOCKSIZE and gives an
> estimate
hi there,
the du(1) man page states the following:
"
-B blocksize
Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is differ-
ent from the -k, -m options or setting BLOCKSIZE and gives an
estimate of how much space the examined file hierarchy woul
