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check your units
Authored by: wngdn on Mar 26, '02 09:49:51AM

The original hint was mistaken about units. "du -s" reports 512-byte blocks, not bytes. "du -sk" will give you K, which is an easier unit to think about.

(This silly behavior is enshrined in the POSIX spec, so we're all stuck with it.)



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