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eza (formerly exa, ls replacement) can now show the actual total size of directory contents
(discuss.tchncs.de)
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I just tested this and the reported sizes with
eza -l --total-size
are wrong for me. I compare it todu --human-readable --apparent-size --all --max-depth 1
and with opening properties in my Dolphin filemanager. Some are way off. In exampledu
and Dolphin report for a certain projects folder of mine "149M", whileeza
reports "184M".this looks like one is using the SI 1000-based units, instead of the binary 1024-based. im pretty sure
du
has a--si
option.the
B
(for bytes) is omitted, so it each is ambiguous to whether itsMiB
(mebibytes -- binary) orMB
(megabytes -- SI).i may be wrong on the technicals but u get the jist.
The difference is too large for that. 184 MB is 176 MiB not 149.