Read only filesystem size issues.

[Adi Linden]

Hi Dean,

> 2) Partition sizes are calculated by using du -s -k command. This bases 
> file size on the cluster size of the development systems filesystem. In 
> my case this cluster size is 4K, while the cluster size of the flash 
> device is set to 1K. This also tends to overestimate the required size 
> of the flash device.

Yup, this is most certainly a problem! I was under the impression the -k
switch would calculate sizes assuming 1024 byte blocks. Not so...

Do you know of any alternative way to calculate filesizes?

TTYL,
Adi

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