# Debugging a series of miscalculations in osquery

DevFeed: [Debugging a series of miscalculations in osquery](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/debugging-a-series-of-miscalculations-in-osquery-15595.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/debugging-a-series-of-miscalculations-in-osquery>)

Author: Vishwa Shah

Published: 2017-08-18T18:59:37Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debugging.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>)

## AI overview

The article investigates incorrect disk-size values returned by osquery. It explains that a Linux result documented as bytes was actually reported in 512-byte blocks, then examines a separate truncation issue in the Darwin implementation and describes submitting an osquery patch.

## Source excerpt

What is osquery?