Re: Documentation question (correction?) for -ls: 1K vs 1 byte block size

[Peggy Russell]

> None of those examples show the block counts from ls ("ls -s").  Find
> reports both the file size in bytes (column 7) and the blocks used
> (column 2).   They're reported the same in both ls and find:
> 
> ~$ ls -dils TRACE.gz ; find TRACE.gz -ls ; stat TRACE.gz
> 181286 36 -rw-r--r--. 1 james users 29882 Apr 30  2008 TRACE.gz
> 181286   36 -rw-r--r--   1 james    users       29882 Apr 30  2008 TRACE.gz
.          *                                      * 
.          block count (72*512)/1024              file size in bytes
.                               *
.                               There's the 1K from the find -ls doc.

>  File: `TRACE.gz'
>  Size: 29882           Blocks: 72         IO Block: 4096   regular file

Got it.  I think I was too focused on column 7 and the ls --block-size= 
option not realizing how it affected disk usage and file size in `ls`. 
I have to remember `ls -ls` rather than turning to `du`. ;-|

Thank you.
Peggy Russell