Greetings, Dave Korn!
> Hi list, > I always used to use du with the -cxhs options, but since updating to the > latest (8.15-1) version there appears to be a problem caused by -x: >> $ ls -la >> total 392188 >> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 6 00:35 . >> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 3 05:58 .. >> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 3 16:28 gcc4 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 DKAdmin None 401599997 Apr 6 00:43 gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2 >> >> $ du -xh gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2 >> >> $ du -h gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2 >> 383M gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2 >> >> $ > Unless I'm misunderstanding it badly, -x shouldn't make any difference when > counting a real file in the current directory. I wonder if it could have > perhaps been introduced by the recent related bugfix that I read about in > /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS: >> du -x no longer counts root directories of other file systems. >> [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0] > or perhaps some interaction between that and Cygwin's path conversion code? 401599997/1024/1024 = 382.985Mb Seems proper to me. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 06.04.2013, <15:47> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
