On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > the du(1) man page states the following: > > " > -B blocksize > Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is differ- > ent from the -k, -m options or setting BLOCKSIZE and gives an > estimate of how much space the examined file hierarchy would > require on a filesystem with the given blocksize. Unless in -A > mode, blocksize is rounded up to the next multiple of 512. > " > > is this a doc bug, or does du(1) really always assume that every filesystem's > blocksize == 512?
The default blocksize is 512 bytes. The -B option flag lets you tell du to assume a different filesystem blocksize. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
