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Author: Michael
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: size of folders
weird:
bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ du -s --si -h Pictures/
45G Pictures/
bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ du -s --si Pictures/
48G Pictures/ (this must be what the GUI is reporting)
bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ du -s Pictures/
46590432 Pictures/
bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ du -sh Pictures
45G Pictures

So which should I believe?

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 1:01 PM Michael <> wrote:
>
> how bizarre. du reports 45 gig, ncdu reports 44.4 gig, and the gui
> method reports 47.7 gig.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 12:41 PM Shaun Anderson
> <> wrote:
> >
> > Try ncdu as well.
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 09:29 Michael <> wrote:
> >>
> >> I want to see how big /Pictures is to see about an external drive for
> >> it. How do I do it?
> >>
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