From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754531Ab3ERCCb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 May 2013 22:02:31 -0400 Received: from smtp.syd.comcen.com.au ([203.23.236.77]:1712 "EHLO smtp.syd.comcen.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751306Ab3ERCCa (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 May 2013 22:02:30 -0400 Message-ID: <5196E0A1.6000300@spin.net.au> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:01 +1000 From: Chris Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Roland Eggner Subject: Re: Linux source tree size difference issue References: <519577DD.3040204@spin.net.au> <20130517194419.GA4002@mobil.systemanalysen.net> In-Reply-To: <20130517194419.GA4002@mobil.systemanalysen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-comcen-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-comcen-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-comcen-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.823, required 4, AWL 0.68, BAYES_00 -2.60, RDNS_NONE 0.10) X-comcen-MailScanner-From: chrisjones@spin.net.au Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/18/2013 05:44 AM, Roland Eggner wrote: > > $ LC_ALL=C du --help | grep -E -e 'apparent|sparse|fragmentation' > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > --apparent-size print apparent sizes, rather than disk usage; although > the apparent size is usually smaller, it may be > larger due to holes in ('sparse') files, internal > fragmentation, indirect blocks, and the like > -b, --bytes equivalent to '--apparent-size --block-size=1' > Thanks Roland. I figured it out in the end. Things were not as bad as they first seemed. Regards -- Chris Jones Founder and Lead Software Architect Paradise Software chrisjones@spin.net.au