From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 10 15:46:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D4B37B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 15:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GD500G015X6HU@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 10 May 2001 15:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.167]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GD500MA05WOVF@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 10 May 2001 15:46:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:45:42 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: du - It Doesn't Add Up? In-reply-to: To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks everyone. I now understand where my interpretation error was. Drew > -----Original Message----- > From: Drew Tomlinson [mailto:drewt@writeme.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:06 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: du - It Doesn't Add Up? > > > I'm checking disk usage with the du command. I'm getting the > following > output: > > 117 Blacksheep# du -hc /etc > 97K /etc/defaults > 32K /etc/periodic/daily > 11K /etc/periodic/weekly > 3.0K /etc/periodic/monthly > 47K /etc/periodic > 4.0K /etc/ssh > 9.0K /etc/ssl > 2.0K /etc/gnats > 34K /etc/isdn > 1.0K /etc/kerberosIV > 148K /etc/mail > 44K /etc/mtree > 10.0K /etc/namedb > 5.0K /etc/ppp > 1.0K /etc/skel > 17K /etc/uucp > 12M /etc > 12M total > > If I add up the numbers, I only get a total of 462K, not 12M > as indicated. > What am I missing? > > Thanks, > > Drew > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message