On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:06:30AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
du currently displays the total count of blocks used for the file
including
block(s) for XATTRs. This means that every file is reported as having a
block used for the security.selinux XATTR (even though those blocks are
shared extensively on typical SE Linux systems).
A more useful display on SE Linux systems is to have the --apparent-size
option of du enabled. I suggest that we have a default install of Fedora
alias "du" to "du --apparent-size".
That would be really evil, du is *supposed* to report disk usage not
file sizes. It's always been true that disk usage and file size can
diverge, that's why du and ls are separate tools.
joe