Op zondag 3 augustus 2003 00:28, schreef Anders Johansson:

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 00:15, Richard Bos wrote:

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I get the underneath result from the disk usage (du) command: linux SuSE $ du -bs 8.2-i386 (which is report bits) 55466325 8.2-i386

-bs is BS :) It reports "apparent size", which isn't always the same as the actual used size on the disk

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linux SuSE $ du -hs 8.2-i386 86M 8.2-i386

linux SuSE $ du -ks 8.2-i38 87524 8.2-i386

linux SuSE $ du -s 8.2-i386 87524 8.2-i386

These numbers are probably correct

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while awk reports something around 60M: ls -l | awk '{totaal+=$5}END{print totaal}' 54381460

linux01:3 23:54:50 /ftp/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE $ find 8.2-i386 -type l | xargs ls -l | awk '{totaal+=$5}END{print totaal}' 667073

I'm not entirely sure what you're doing here (what are the symbolic links?), but note that the disk usage of a file is not the same as the number of bytes in that file, especially not if you're using a block based file system like ext2 or 3. The more files you have, the greater the discrepancy

Thanks Anders. There are just a couple of thousand links in that directory consuming space as well. Okay the difference is as you say: the disk usage of a file is not the same as the number of bytes in that file. I don't know the filesystem, but I assume it is reiserfs. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless