On 8/8/2007, "Don Hinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Janos Dohanics writes: > > > > On 8/8/2007, "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >On Aug 8, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Janos Dohanics wrote: > > >> du is acting strange on my system: > > >> > > >> # du /usr/X11R6 > > >> 4 /usr/X11R6/share/locale > > >> 8 /usr/X11R6/share > > >> 12 /usr/X11R6 > > >> > > >> # du -h /usr/X11R6 > > >> 2.0K /usr/X11R6/share/locale > > >> 4.0K /usr/X11R6/share > > >> 6.0K /usr/X11R6 > > >> > > >> # du -k /usr/X11R6 > > >> 2 /usr/X11R6/share/locale > > >> 4 /usr/X11R6/share > > >> 6 /usr/X11R6 > > >> > > >> This seems to be happening only after I have sudo'd myself. du reports > > >> consistent numbers if I run it as myself or if I su first. > > >> > > >> This is a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE system with snapshots enabled. > > >> > > >> Any ideas? > > > > > >Presumably the accounts which have consistent results have something > > >like: > > > > > > setenv BLOCKSIZE K > > > > > >...or: > > > > > > export BLOCKSIZE=K > > > > > >...configured in their shell. > > > > > >-- > > >-Chuck > > > > Well, this is all I have in .bash_profile: > > > > $ cat .bash_profile > > PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] \w]\\$ " > > export EDITOR=vim > > > > The issue is that du reports twice as much disk usage as du -h or du -k, > > and I have no clue why... > >$ echo $BLOCKSIZE >K >$ mkdir test >$ du test >2 test >$ du -k test >2 test >$ du -h test >2,0K test >$ unset BLOCKSIZE >$ du test >4 test > > BLOCKSIZE If the environment variable BLOCKSIZE is set, and the -k > option is not specified, the block counts will be displayed in > units of that size block. If BLOCKSIZE is not set, and the -k > option is not specified, the block counts will be displayed in > 512-byte blocks. > >hth... >don
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