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From: | L A Walsh |
Subject: | bug#49994: upgrade: have "-s" of 'ls' display alloc'd sizes for specified "--block-size" |
Date: | Tue, 17 Aug 2021 03:24:06 -0700 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) |
On 2021/08/15 21:36, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 8/15/21 9:26 PM, L A Walsh wrote:I don't want to display the allocated size on the current device, but the size that would be allocated on a device with block-size=1-byte.There's no practical way for 'ls' to calculate that, as the kernel doesn't reveal that information.
'du' can display sizes using and arbitrary block size with no need for kernel support, but it doesn't have the format options that ls has. For determining the size with an arbitrary block size, the code could just be dupped from 'du'.
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