Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56

Daniel Jacobowitz (dan@debian.org)
Thu, 9 May 2002 15:22:24 -0400

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 01:13:42PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > BTW. If one needs the size of the disk well we could
> > attach it as a file size to the device file in /dev IMHO. Why not?
>
> Seems like good idea. (I don't know how happy du is going to be that. OTOH
> is du is not happy, we should fix it not to count block devices...)
> Pavel

The number /usr/bin/du shows is the block usage, not the logical size;
you could use the logical size for this...

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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