On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:42:01 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> Is there any way I can find out authoritatively how much space a given
> package takes up on disk when installed? The "size" parameter in "rpm -
> qi" is not it, clearly.
>
> Perhaps if I run "rpm -ql" and then feed that to some command that
> counts bytes or inodes? I realize that there will be a rounding error
> since each file must take up at least one inode on disk, but if I can
> get inode-level (e.g. 4KB) precision then I'll be very happy indeed.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
Untested whether the info in here is more accurate:
rpm -q --qf "[%{fsnames} %{fssizes}\n]" PACKAGE
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