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Re: [coreutils] Bug in du with -x flag?


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.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 06.04.2013, <15:47>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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