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[Henry Spencer]

In article <BGLENDEN.91May6130729 at colobus.cv.nrao.edu> bglenden at colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes:
>A quickie shell script tells me that:
>(total size in 4k blocks)/(total # of bytes in files) = 2.0
>On a Sun with 1k blocks the number is 1.2.
>This ignores the role of fragments, which I would have thought would
>go a long way to saving the day for AIX...

Do remember that the Sun is quoting space used in KB.  If AIX is being asked
to quote space usage in 4K blocks, quite plausibly it is rounding file sizes
up to multiples of 4K.  Make sure this is really a space-consumption problem
rather than just a reporting problem.
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