On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:40:39 GMT, Joe Orton said:
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.
'du' doesn't report on the space used by the inode either - and on many
filesystems with many small files, the inode is a significant chunk of
the used space....