bug#47085: du: why does 'usage' show prefixes 'Z' or 'Y' if they are disallowed?

2021-03-11 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi, On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 08:53:03PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote: > I thought to display 0 (or 0) for 1st arg by doing: > > du -BY, as -B says I can list a unit for scaling, but for > -BY and -BZ I get: > du: -B argument 'Y' too large. > > It doesn't even look to see how much space is used, it > im

bug#47085: du: why does 'usage' show prefixes 'Z' or 'Y' if they are disallowed?

2021-03-11 Thread L A Walsh
I thought to display 0 (or 0) for 1st arg by doing: du -BY, as -B says I can list a unit for scaling, but for -BY and -BZ I get: du: -B argument 'Y' too large. It doesn't even look to see how much space is used, it immediately returns Y & Z are "too large". Why are those suffixes listed as vali

bug#47059: (bug in cp removing destination file when it can't be replaced due to cross-volume linking)

2021-03-11 Thread L A Walsh
Did anyone see this? Usually someone says something like confirming it or asking for more info. Is this a known bug and/or has it been seen before? (slightly cleaned up report below) Thanks! On 2021/03/10 13:41, L A Walsh wrote: Was trying to save disk space by linking duplicate files, in a d