On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:22:29AM -0700, Lamont R. Peterson wrote: > > du is *supposed* to report disk usage not > > file sizes. > > I think you have that backwards. du shows the total of file sizes. > > Also, how does --apparent-size create an *inaccurate* picture here? I think > you've got that backwards, too. You're forgetting about sparse files, I think. joe