Re: du strange output on single file

Dan <dan@nnnne-o-o-o.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Here I found a strange behavior of du:
>
> wiz$ ls -lsa index.php
> 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 user www 7412 Oct 19 2024 index.php
> wiz$ du index.php
> 16 index.php <-- this is weird
> wiz$ du -h index.php
> 8.0K index.php

Is it weird? Checking the man page for du(1):

DESCRIPTION
The du utility displays the file system block usage for each file
argument and for each directory in the file hierarchy rooted in each
directory argument. Note that the system block usage is usually greater
than the actual size of the file. <snip>

I'm not a file system person, but to me you're looking at different
units here, are you not?

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