[nzlug] Woes with du

[Mark Foster]

      --apparent-size
               print  apparent  sizes,  rather  than  disk usage; although 
the apparent size is usually smaller, it may be
               larger due to holes in (`sparse') files, internal 
fragmentation, indirect blocks, and the like



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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Johnathan wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> I'm looking for an alternative to du because of the fact that it 
> overestimates file sizes.
>
> I know the man pages says that it's a estimate only, but I didn't think it 
> meant it was an ESTIMATE :p
>
> It seem to work on file plateau sizes in order to estimate efficiently (e.g. 
> flat ascii file with 1 line of text is shown as 4KB, same as a file with 4 
> lines of text say).
>
> This caught me off guard when I tried to find out how big kdelibs.
>
> "du -sh" claims 229MB. Konqueror (rightly) says 118.5MB
>
> Does anyone know of a commandline utility that can give better estimations 
> than what du can do?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Johnathan
>
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