Subject: bug#34110: feature request: dual-column du output, showing "real" and "on-disk" sizes (and about that "apparent-size" concept)

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:40:29 +0100

On 1/17/19 11:13 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> I realise that you cannot really call the content size observable "real size
> when reporting from a disk-usage viewpoint, but "content size"
> (--content-size, -C) should be clear enough?

This sounds to me as if you wanted 'du' to read() the content of each file
to get the 'correct' statistics.  That is more in the domain of wc(1).

Have a nice day,
Berny