Re: "du -k" and "du -b" inconsistent output

[Eric Blake]

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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.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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