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I know base 2 and base 10 , MB and MiB, but i'm not understanding the byte counts shown for a directory, by du and by windows explorer
The du command shows 43G in use. I'm not sure whether that's base 2 in the sense of 2^30 or if it's base 10, in the sense of 10^9. But anyhow -
Running this du command from cygwin, to see the size ...
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pass du (disk usage) result to a numeric variable
In a shell script, I'm looking for a way to pass the du (disk usage) result to a numeric variable, so that I cantie the execution of a shell script to the size of a specific folder. I've tried ...
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du and df on Mac give different results
I'm trying to figure out where my HD space is going. df tells me this:
bash-3.2$ df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1 148Gi 137Gi 11Gi ...
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Is my UNIX command du failing?
I was checking the space occupied in my hard drive, and I saw strange results when executing the du command.
Here you have a sample of what I've typed:
marcha_r@Risa marcha_r $ du -cksh *
28M ...
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