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SubjectRe: Linux source tree size difference issue
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



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