I like the idea of two columns at once.
with "--apparent-size", du returns the actual file size; without, it returns
how large the file appears to be (judging from its disk footprint).
The "apparent" size is the size that "ls -l" outputs, and is the size
that traditional I/O operations like
Hello,
I'll address only the "apparent-size" issue (not the two-columns, or
compressed file-systems):
On 2019-01-16 1:13 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
According to `du --help`, the apparent-size option reports a size that is not
the actual disk usage. The numbers above seem to show the oppo
Hi,
I hope feature requests are acceptable here.
Now that more and more filesystems have support for compression it becomes more
interesting the comparre actual file/directory (content) size and the
corresponding on-disk size. Currently you have to call du twice to do that,
which quickly becom
