It's 'cuz Solaris du counts blocks, not K, and the netapp blocks are 16K, not 1/2 K.

I think there's an option to du to tell it how big the bloody blocks are or to make it count K, not blocks. 'Course, if I remember correctly, that option is broken in the stock install, but there's a patch available from sun that fixes it, I think.

Amy -- answering off the top of her head, with an answer worth what you paid for it.

At 10:40 AM 3/20/97 -0600, Jim Fondren wrote:

I sent the following report to support but also wanted to ask the user community about this...

The unix "du" command is lying to me on Sunos5 machines...

sanantonio: ll arc -rw-rw-rw- 1 rich users 1053700 Aug 12 1996 arc

sanantonio: du -sk arc 65 arc

sanantonio: /files/home/jim/ftp/fileutils-3.16/src/du -sk arc 65 arc

sanantonio: uname -a SunOS sanantonio 5.5 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1

A Sunos4 box says...

[dallas] ll arc -rw-rw-rw- 1 rich users 1053700 Aug 12 1996 arc [dallas] du -s arc 2072 arc [dallas] uname -a SunOS dallas 4.1.3_U1 1 sun4m

Any known work-arounds? I checked NETAPPs' FAQ and didn't see anything.

My Netapps box is a F220... NetApp Release 4.0a: Wed Oct 16 05:03:33 PDT 1996