Bauke Jan Douma wrote on 20-02-08 22:53:
Mike Frysinger wrote on 20-02-08 21:56:
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Richard Ems wrote:
If I do a "du -s * ." and right afterwards "du -s ." I get different
values for the actual directory ".".
the * globa does not match the . directory. it matches all the files
as expanded by the shell (which does not include the . directory nor
any file that starts with a .)
-mike
This can hardly be the answer, can it?
This is with * . and . * respectively:
/usr/src/linux > du -s * .
20 COPYING
92 CREDITS
10892 Documentation
4 Kbuild
92 MAINTAINERS
52 Makefile
292 Module.symvers
20 README
4 REPORTING-BUGS
984 System.map
75136 arch
844 block
4484 crypto
169076 drivers
53780 fs
43948 include
424 init
428 ipc
5412 kernel
2588 lib
0 make.res
3124 make.res.3621
4 make.res.4036
2584 mm
39624 net
2672 scripts
1160 security
23508 sound
3692 usr
5404 vmlinux
6500 vmlinux.o
471956 . <--
/usr/src/linux > du -s . *
474044 . <--
20 COPYING
92 CREDITS
10892 Documentation
4 Kbuild
92 MAINTAINERS
52 Makefile
292 Module.symvers
20 README
4 REPORTING-BUGS
984 System.map
73048 arch <-- ?
844 block
4484 crypto
169076 drivers
53780 fs
43948 include
424 init
428 ipc
5412 kernel
2588 lib
0 make.res
3124 make.res.3621
4 make.res.4036
2584 mm
39624 net
2672 scripts
1160 security
23508 sound
3692 usr
5404 vmlinux
6500 vmlinux.o
/usr/src/linux > du -s arch
75136 arch
Ah, the diff must be bzImage:
/usr/src/linux > find . -type f -links 2 -ls
104974149 2088 -rw------- 2 root root 2135928 Dec 24 18:32
./arch/i386/boot/bzImage
104974149 2088 -rw------- 2 root root 2135928 Dec 24 18:32 ./bzImage
bjd
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