On 9/24/07, Adil Mujeeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -lh test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 adil group 2.0G 2007-09-24 23:51 test
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> du -h test
> 2.1G    test   <--------------------- why it is showing 2.1 GB
>
> I could not understand this difference. Could anybody explain this
> behavioour?
>

Your right, this is not a kernel issue.  It is simply a display issue.

In particular, I would guess it is a GB vs. GiB issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

ie. "ls" is reporting Gibibytes and "du" is reporting Gigabytes.

Over time more and more user-level apps moving to the nomenclature
described at Wikipedia.  (In this case neither is using Wikipedia
endorsed suffixes of GB / GiB).

Greg
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