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Date:      Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:59:52 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: du output strange!!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0206282354050.34437-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020628234923.D79950@k7.mavetju>

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On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> > This could be trivial but can someone explain to me what is going on here:
>
> According to the man-page/usage() -h and -k are mutally exclusive,
> only the program doesn't enforce it.
>
> -h assigns BLOCKSIZE to 512
> -k assigns BLOCKSIZE to 1024

Are you sure the man page says that?  My reading of it tells me:

  "If the -k flag is specified, the number of 1024-byte blocks used by the
   file is displayed"

Nothing in there about -h overiding the -k flag....

>
> Edwin
>
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