Re: disk space allocation (du, ls et al?)

Baksik, Frederick (NM75) wrote: the info pages state for these tools: If none of the above environment variables are set, the block size currently defaults to 1024 bytes in most contexts, but this number may change in the future. For `ls' file sizes, the block size defaults to 1 byte. Er

RE: disk space allocation (du, ls et al?)

on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:00:57 -0800 Linda Walsh wrote: >However, the commands like: > > du -s >-or- > ls -s > >don't show the file's actual allocation size on disk but >seem to use a fixed 1k for size. the info pages state for these tools: If none of the above environment variables are s