Re: Snow Arithmetic
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.
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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