[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#315271: Inspector computes wrong folder sizes

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:41:38PM +0300, Enrico Sersale wrote:
> 
> >When I use the Inspector to compute the size of a folder the computed
> >size is almost always not correct.  Most often it is close to the right
> >size but once it has happened to me that a 5 Mb folder was shown as a 4 Gb 
> >one.
> 
> I've reviewed the code but it seems correct.
> The strange think is that using "mc" to compute the size gives the same 
> results but "du -shc" gives bigger sizes.

Hmm, I tried this with one directory and here are the results:

du -hs       -  912M
du --si -s   -  957M
mc           - 1119M
GWorkspace   - 1.09G (which is the same as mc provided 1G=1024M)

Anton Zinoviev