On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 06:24:39PM +0100, Nicolas Bercher wrote:
> tlaro...@polynum.com a écrit :
> >I never thought that perhaps, under Unices, du(1) with hard links will
> >produce the same misleading result...
>
> And fortunately, Unices 'du' handles this correctly!
> (-l option toggles the counting of hardlinked files several times or
> not)
But one could argue that in this case the only possibility would be
du(1) with some flag producing the grand "true" total without a
detailed listing.
Because, if it is not the case, whether another instance of an already
seen hardlink is not printed in the listing (but this is arbitrary);
whether the sum is incorrect (in the meaning not the sum of the sizes
displayed) ;)
The devil is in the details.
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