UNIX-WIZARDS Digest V11#011

[Ken Bell]

> From- David Barts <davidb at pacer.uucp>
> Subject- du(1) returns funny sizes
> As you can see, running du on the remote system reports only half
> as many blocks as there really are.  The reverse is true if we
> run du on a Solbourne directory--du reports the correct number
> of blocks on the Solbourne, but reports twice as many as there
> really are when run from the HP.

My wild guess would be that the blocksize on the two machines differs
by a factor of, oh, say, two.

And count me for a "YES" vote on renaming to "comp.unix.gizzards".
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