GNU coreutils: block size related to df command

ABOUT df df (abbreviation for disk free) is a standard Unix command used to display the amount of available disk space for file systems on which the invoking user has appropriate read access. df is typically implemented using the statfs or statvfs system calls. [bash] $df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 1921644 …

A look into ls ( –block-size option ) in GNU

ABOUT ls –block-size with -l, scale sizes by SIZE when printing them; e.g., ‘–block-size=M’ [bash light=”true”] $ls info man $ls -l total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 jeffrin jeffrin 4096 Nov 22 20:39 info drwxr-xr-x 3 jeffrin jeffrin 4096 Nov 22 18:51 man $ls -l –block-size=B ls: invalid –block-size argument `B’ $ls -l –block-size=KB total 9kB drwxr-xr-x …