On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:52:47PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > The obvious question is: are you missing a directory (perhaps a hidden > one) from the list you passed to du?
I don't think so. $ ls -a / . .. bin boot cdrom dev etc floppy home initrd lib lost+found mnt proc root sbin tmp usr var vmlinuz . irrelevant .. irrelevant bin check boot check cdrom irrelevant (I did confirm this) dev check etc check floppy irrelevant (I did confirm this) home mounted on different partition initrd check lib check lost+found check mnt check proc irrelevant root check sbin check tmp check usr mounted on different partition var check vmlinuz symbolic link Is there something else that I'm missing and don't realize? I just don't understand how there can be such a difference being reported between the two programs. -- Jason Stechschulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]