From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 20 14:31:06 2002
Subject: du, kilobytes
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Kilo is a SI prefix which always means 1000. Kilo never means anything
else in any special context. Kilo is an international standard prefix
which always means 1000.
Of course.
In /bin/du on my slackware installation, kilobytes are used
to describe blocks of 1024 bytes of data. This is wrong use
of the prefix kilo.
You are not precise enough. /bin/du does not do so much talking.
Probably you refer to the du man page or info file or so.
Looking at the man page I noticed a typo. Corrected.
It now says
-k, --kilobytes
Print sizes in KiB (binary kilobytes, 1024 bytes).
-m, --megabytes
Print sizes in MiB (binary megabytes, 1048576
bytes).
Andries
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