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Created January 5, 2011 19:58
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du proofs
kurt@yttrium:/tmp$ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo/bar/1m bs=1M count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0044377 s, 236 MB/s
kurt@yttrium:/tmp$ ls -l foo/bar/1m
-rw-r--r-- 1 kurt users 1048576 2011-01-05 14:56 foo/bar/1m
kurt@yttrium:/tmp$ ls -lh foo/bar/1m
-rw-r--r-- 1 kurt users 1.0M 2011-01-05 14:56 foo/bar/1m
kurt@yttrium:/tmp$ du foo
1028 foo/bar
1032 foo
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