Re: [PATCH] doc: du - clarify default blocksize in usage/manpage

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ondřej Vašík on 9/9/2009 2:19 AM:
> Hello,
> as requested via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511188 , it
> would be nice to clarify default blocksize used by du in manpage/--help
> output. Although I closed that bugzilla as notabug, further
> communication via private emails convinced me to propose that change to
> upstream.
> As it breaks translation strings, I guess it would be better to postpone
> commit after 7.6 (if accepted).

The default block size depends on POSIXLY_CORRECT (which requires 512, not
1024) and on BLOCK_SIZE (which the user can set to a different size).
Maybe a better thing to do would be adding a blurb about environment
variables that affect block size.

Also, df and ls need the same treatment, whatever we decide to do.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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