On Feb 20, 2008 6:58 PM, Richard Ems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi list!
>
> If I do a "du -s * ." and right afterwards "du -s ." I get different
> values for the actual directory ".".
>
> This is on Linux, openSUSE 10.3, coreutils-6.9-43, xfs filesystem.
>
>
> Example:
>
> # du -s * . | grep "\.$" ; du -s .
> 23227004 .
> 25251176 .
>
>
> Is this correct "du" behavior ?
It's hard to say, because you haven't given us enough information to
form an opinion. Hang on a minute while I log into your system and
take a look.... see what I mean?
Two things that spring to mind are the possibility that the * is
expanding into a bunch of file names, some of which may begin with "-"
and thus modify the behaviour of du. ("du -s ./*" is much, much,
safer than "du -s *).
Is there activity in the directories beneath "."? That will change
the answer du gives, of course. Try comparing the result of
something like "set -x; du -s . . ; du -s . ; sleep 60; du -s .".
James.
But
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