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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index b07a330eb..f0e46b9ee 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -12429,6 +12429,9 @@ dd bs=1 seek=2GiB if=/dev/null of=big has an apparent size of 2 GiB, yet on most modern file systems, it actually uses almost no space. +Apparent sizes are meaningful only for regular files and symbolic links. +Other file types do not contribute to apparent size. + @item -B @var{size} @itemx --block-size=@var{size} @opindex -B |