On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:59:32AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > But the surprise is that it was _not_ hidden. It _was_ here under /dist
> > ... but apparently not added to the summary made by du(1)? Does du(1)
> > "know" that some dir are mount point taking (normally) no real space,
> > and skipping them? Because this means one can add whatever files in
> > there and fill fossil with du(1) ignoring all...
> >
> > On a side note, the print from du(1) is not accurate with the "-h" flag:
> >
> > term% du -sh /
> > 347.8285G /
> >
> > I have megabytes, not gigabytes.
>
> i think your / has mounts and binds that are confusing du. you
> need to remount your root file system someplace free of mounts
> or binds on top, e.g.:
>
> ; mount /srv/boot /n/boot; cd /n/boot
> ; du -s .>[2=]
> 4049232 .
> ; du -sh .>[2=]
> 3.861649G .
> ; hoc
> 4049232 / 1024 / 1024
> 3.86164855957
Do you spot only the 347.8285G? or altogether the /dist/plan9.iso that
was not seen? Because, for the gigabytes, it is just a format error,
since without the option it reports correctly 350Mb. Since your test is
with gigabytes, the G suffix is correct. But it may be simply (I didn't
look at the source) that for Megabytes, it prints a G suffix too...
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