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Re: [coreutils] Bug in du with -x flag?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 15:48:52 +0400
- Subject: Re: [coreutils] Bug in du with -x flag?
- References: <515F6598 dot 3080102 at gmail dot com>
- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Dave Korn!
> Hi list,
> I always used to use du with the -cxhs options, but since updating to the
> latest (8.15-1) version there appears to be a problem caused by -x:
>> $ ls -la
>> total 392188
>> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 6 00:35 .
>> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 3 05:58 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 3 16:28 gcc4
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 DKAdmin None 401599997 Apr 6 00:43 gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
>>
>> $ du -xh gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
>>
>> $ du -h gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
>> 383M gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
>>
>> $
> Unless I'm misunderstanding it badly, -x shouldn't make any difference when
> counting a real file in the current directory. I wonder if it could have
> perhaps been introduced by the recent related bugfix that I read about in
> /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS:
>> du -x no longer counts root directories of other file systems.
>> [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]
> or perhaps some interaction between that and Cygwin's path conversion code?
401599997/1024/1024 = 382.985Mb
Seems proper to me.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 06.04.2013, <15:47>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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