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Re: du Bug?
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Gus Michel |
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Re: du Bug? |
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Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:00:29 +0000 (UTC) |
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ice <iceblue22es <at> yahoo.es> writes:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a cuestion. Why en HPUX system when you type a du over an
> empty directory you receive a zero size directory and when you do
> over a Linux system you receive 4 kB for each directory.
>
> If you test it over a directory with many subdirectory you may be
> wrong.
>
I don't know about HP-UX, but on most versions of *NIX, du means
Disk Usage, and directories (even empty ones) use disk space.
In the case of ext2fs, the amount of disk space allocated for a
directory is one file system block, which is typically 4kb.
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