Talk:Du (Unix)

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The weight of directories:
$ du -d 1-c -h

does not work on a fedora system ? --Anon. does not work on ubuntu either... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.120.180.34 (talk) 09:31, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I wonder if what was meant was was
The weight of directories:
$ du -D */ -c -h
--Gwern (contribs) 19:47 24 January 2007 (GMT)

This should mention what the default unit of disk space is. Is is 512 bytes? 98.207.58.135 (talk) 13:25, 21 February 2008 (UTC)