Eric Blake wrote: > [please keep replies on the list, so that others may chime in] > > According to Robin McAdam on 3/21/2009 7:26 PM: >>> That warning was in place to warn of a future change in behavior. The >>> change has now been completed, and you will not get that warning in >>> coreutils 7.1. But if I guessed wrong, then you will have to be more >>> explicit on how what you posted shows a bug (that is, give us more >>> details >>> on what actually happened vs. what you expected to happen). >>> > >> Documents\ and\ Settings/ >> is reported as both 1.5G and 4.5G > > Thanks for calling attention to that. From your original report, > > xpu...@amdxp2100:/mnt/160G-1$ du -s --si * Documents\ and\ Settings/ > ... > 4.5G Documents and Settings > ... > 1.5G Documents and Settings/ > > I can explain why it is listed twice - you listed it twice on the command > line (once via * without a trailing slash, and once and via explicit > naming with the slash). But I'm not sure why the two values are coming > back differently. Maybe an experiment on a smaller directory is in order? > Maybe someone else can point to something to look at?
Hard-linked files could explain that. In that case, adding the --count-links (-l) option would make the numbers match. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
