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Submitted by Martins on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 21:58

coreutils: du -b retuns much smaller value than du --block-size=1

Project:Trisquel
Version:6.0
Component:Packages
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:wrong
Description

du --version
du (GNU coreutils) 8.13
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Torbjörn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert,
and Jim Meyering.
from: /home/martins/Documents/firefox-41.0.2+build2
$ du -d0 -b
982041150 .
$ du -d0 --block-size=1
1410564096 .
$ du -d0 -k
1377504 .
$ du -d0 -m
1346 .

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Legimet:
Thu, 02/16/2017 - 00:45
Status:active» wrong

du normally returns the disk space used by a file in the filesystem. The option -b is equivalent to --apparent-size --block-size=1, which outputs the apparent size of the file only. The two values are expected to be different.

Martins:
Fri, 02/17/2017 - 18:11

I checked the manual again. I stand corrected. Thank-you for pointing it out.