On Friday 20 September 2002 22:00, Thomas Zander wrote:

> > That would be a nice thing, but it could also get very confusing. For
> > instance, imagine the confusion the use of MB and MiB side by side would
> > create. And Konqueror reporting one number while ls reports another...
>
> du allready reports something different from ls. Do you hear people
> complaining about that?

That's because du is the tool to report the disk usage (hence the name) and=
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not the file sizes.