Comment Re:Is that why (Score 4, Informative) 711
how did this get modded up? this is misinformation.
du(1) man page (snow leopard):
-H Symbolic links on the command line are followed, symbolic links
in file hierarchies are not followed.
-h "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte.
df(1) man page (snow leopard):
-H "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the
number of digits to three or less using base 10 for sizes.
-h "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the
number of digits to three or less using base 2 for sizes.
this is exactly same output as man pages fro those two in FreeBSD 6.1
this is man page from debian linux:
-h, --human-readable
print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
-H, --si
likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024
so it seems to me that behavior of darwin is exactly same as gnu tools.