Subject: Re: bug#49994: upgrade: have "-s" of 'ls' display alloc'd sizes for specified "--block-size"

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 21:36:13 -0700

On 8/15/21 9:26 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> I don't want to display the allocated size on the current device,
> but the size that would be allocated on a device with block-size=1-byte.

There's no practical way for 'ls' to calculate that, as the kernel 
doesn't reveal that information.