du on SuSE7.0

[Petra Kogel]

Hi,

I found this email address as reference in the du man page on SuSE7.0,
so
here we go ..

The du command on SuSE7.0 appears to be a little less than accurate:

prometheus{/home/systems/syk/src}9 % uname -a
Linux prometheus 2.2.16 #1 Wed Aug 2 20:03:33 GMT 2000 i686 unknown

prometheus{/home/systems/syk/src}4 % l RCS
total 11
-r-xr-xr-x   1 syk      systems      5261 Feb  6  1997 disk_usage,v
-r-xr-xr-x   1 syk      systems       784 Oct  7  1997 ecmwf.hippi,v
-r-xr-xr-x   1 syk      systems       670 Feb  6  1997 ecquot,v
-r-xr-xr-x   1 syk      systems      3978 Aug 24  1998 magplot,v
-r-xr-----   1 syk      systems      1464 Sep 29  1995 proc_count,v
-r-xr-xr-x   1 syk      systems      2100 Feb  6  1997 top10,v
-r-xr--r--   1 syk      systems      3083 Sep 29  1995 top10.list,v
-r-xr-xr-x   1 syk      systems      1700 Sep 29  1995 top10_send,v

prometheus{/home/systems/syk/src}12 % bc
bc 1.05
Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'. 
5261 + 784 + 670 + 3978 + 1464 + 2100 + 3083 + 1700
19040

prometheus{/home/systems/syk/src}13 % du -s -k RCS
12      RCS



prometheus{/home/systems/syk/src}14 % du -b RCS
12288   RCS

So, it is 30% out ..


Thanks for some feedback, I've got a number of unhappy users here :-)

Kind regards,
Petra 


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