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Re: Snow Arithmetic
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Re: Snow Arithmetic


  • Subject: Re: Snow Arithmetic
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:45:57 -0400

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Luther Fuller<email@hidden> wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> I suspect that's just whole blocks vs actual bytes.  Even a 1-byte
> file can't take up less than a whole block of disk space, which will
> show up as something like "4KB on disk (1 byte)".

> The Finder's dictionary defines both a physical and logical size ...
> item n : An item
> size double integer, r/o : the logical size of the item
> physical size double integer, r/o : the actual space used by the item on
> disk

> Perhaps this is what we are dealing with here.

Yes, that's the corresponding attributes in the dictionary.  If a file
says "4KB on disk (1 byte)", then its "physical size" is 4096 and its
"size" is 1.

But the order of magnitude missing from du's output still confuses me.

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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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