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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#49994: upgrade: have "-s" of 'ls' display alloc'd sizes for specified "--block-size" |
Date: | Tue, 17 Aug 2021 16:00:08 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 |
On 8/17/21 3:24 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
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
That's different from displaying the size that would have been allocated on a device with a block size of 1 byte. 'du' can't do what you requested, any more than 'ls' can.
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