Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:3683 news.software.b:7669 comp.unix.aix:4912 Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b,comp.unix.aix Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000 unsuitable for news Message-ID: <1991May6.181144.23900@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 18:11:44 GMT References: Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article bglenden@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. -- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry