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Re: file system shenanigans (was: Re: [PLUG] ELF Init section)
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:39:23PM +0000, qumak wrote:
> this to me would suggest that du can be only as specific as the block size of
> your filesystem (the -b option looks for bits, by the way - much like wc -c,
> except of course the 4091 extra non-existant bits ;))
Hrm. Perhaps GNU du. BSD du, as I've said a few times, reports in
512b blocks on a disk with 8192b blocks in the disk label.
I'll stress again that this is NOT the on-disk sector size.
> I'm assuming the fifth byte is in fact the first, being a magic number, but
> i'm probably wrong, it could be something else entirely ;)
Nope, it's the newline which (BSD and GNU, but not System V) echo
adds without the -n option.
~ g r @ eclipsed.net
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