On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, at 21:53, L A Walsh wrote: > > Also something I didn't see as being clear: > I don't see where it says it will always round up to next higher > unit (it may say it somewhere, I just don't see it and was > surprised to see 'du -BT /tmp|hsort -s' show all objects as > being 1.0T and for hsort to show a summary of ~148T > (hsort sorts by human prefixes and has an optional '-s' > switch that shows an additive sum of the sizes). >
See coreutils.info Section 14.2 (entitled "du: Estimate file space usage", second paragraph), and coreutils.info Section 2.3 (entitled "Block size", first paragraph). Both state that fractional block sizes are rounded up to the nearest integer.
