Package: findutils
Version: 4.2.28-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
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In the find(1) manpage, the description of the %b format specifier in
the -printf command currently reads:
%b The amount of disk space used for this file in 512-byte
blocks. Since disk space is allocated in multiples of the
filesystem block size this is usually greater than
%s/1024, but it can also be smaller if the file is a
sparse file.
While it is technically true that %b is usually greater than %s/1024, it
is probably more useful to say here that it is usually greater than
%s/512.
A patch making this change is attached.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages findutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
findutils recommends no packages.
- -- no debconf information
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--- find.1.orig 2006-11-29 13:10:37.054299879 -0500
+++ find.1 2006-11-29 13:10:52.098950367 -0500
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@
.IP %b
The amount of disk space used for this file in 512-byte blocks. Since disk
space is allocated in multiples of the filesystem block size this is usually
-greater than %s/1024, but it can also be smaller if the file is a sparse file.
+greater than %s/512, but it can also be smaller if the file is a sparse file.
.IP %c
File's last status change time in the format returned by the C `ctime'
function.
