du confusion

[Russell Coker]

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".

Currently in a default install we have rm aliased to "rm -i" (and similar for 
mv and cp), so it seems that there is a good precedent for this sort of 
thing.

What do you think?

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