The two Ubuntu versions 9.10 (karmic) and 10.04 (lucid), that are mentioned in this bug reached its end-of-life.
Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013. Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) reached end-of-life on April 30, 2011. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases This bug seems also to be fixed in Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat), therefore I will put it to Fix Released. We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it anymore. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in. ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to coreutils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416981 Title: coreutils: du(1) doesn't summarize correctly Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: coreutils Running 'du -hs <directory>' returns a radically different size summary as displayed in the folder properties of Nautilus in Gnome. The folder I am trying with is displayed as follows in Nautilus: 2,966 items, totalling 54.0 MB du(1) 'du -hs directory' shows: 4.1M directory/ I am running Ubuntu 9.04 64bit on a Dell Latitude D630, all updates installed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/416981/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp