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I want to check the disk usage of a mounted windows shared folder from Linux box. When I check using du -sh it shows larger size than the original size that shows in windows system. Please let me know the command to find the correct disk usage which is equal when checking in windows as well as in Linux.
du (as it's name suggests: disk usage) gives you
the space that is made unusable for other purposes. In other
words a 1 byte file will still take 4096b (or whatever the cluster
size for the particular fs you're looking at is) away ...
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