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Original question
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I really like having du (disk usage) display in Kbytes. It is easy to
estimate Mbytes. What happened to du -k in Solaris-2.6 (running on
SPARCstation LX)? The manual page shows:
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/du [ -adkr ] [ -s | -o ] [ file... ]
/usr/xpg4/bin/du [ -a | -s ] [ -krx ] [ file... ]
OPTIONS
-k Write the files sizes in units of 1024 bytes, rather
than the default 512-byte units.
-s Instead of the default output, report only the total
sum for each of the specified files.
I ran tests:
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Solaris-2.5 Command Response
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/usr/bin/du -s 1002
/usr/bin/du -ks 501
/usr/xpg4/bin/du -s 1002
/usr/xpg4/bin/du -ks 501
/usr/ucb/du -s 501
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Solaris-2.6 Command Response
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/usr/bin/du -s 3520
/usr/bin/du -ks 1760
/usr/xpg4/bin/du -s 16032
/usr/xpg4/bin/du -ks 8016
/usr/ucb/du -s 8016
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Response
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1. There's a better version of du and df in the GNU fileutils package.
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/
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Outcome
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First, my reporting of the results for Solaris-2.6 were erroneous. I
obtained the GNU fileutils package and installed it. Then I re-ran
all the commands plus the GNU du. The GNU command also DOES NOT WORK
PROPERLY under Solaris-2.6.
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Solaris-2.5 Command Response
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/usr/bin/du -s 3852
/usr/bin/du -ks 1926
/usr/xpg4/bin/du -s 3852
/usr/xpg4/bin/du -ks 1926
/usr/ucb/du -s 1926
/usr/local/bin/du -s 1926 <-- GNU command
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Solaris-2.6 Command Response
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/usr/bin/du -s 61632
/usr/bin/du -ks 30816
/usr/xpg4/bin/du -s 61632
/usr/xpg4/bin/du -ks 30816
/usr/ucb/du -s 30816
/usr/local/bin/du -s 30816 <-- GNU command
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Thanks to
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Karl Vogel
Respectfully submitted,
Tom
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Tom Kinter tmk@mayo.edu 507-284-4981
Mayo Foundation
200 First St. SW
Rochester, Minnesota 55905 USA
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