Re: Linux source tree size difference issue

[Chris Jones]

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

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Chris Jones

Founder and Lead Software Architect
Paradise Software
chrisjones@xxxxxxxxxxx

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