Re: [coreutils] Bug in du with -x flag?

[Ryan Johnson <ryan dot johnson at cs dot utoronto dot ca>]

On 06/04/2013 7:48 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> 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.
The problem is not the size reported by du -h... it's that du -x doesn't 
list the file at all.

Ryan


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