"Wolfram Kresse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > du seems to miss files/directorys on vfat filesystems. Only a certain amount > of the filesystem (which seem to correspond to almost exactly 100000 files) > will be processed, for the rest of the filesystem the following error is > printed, for each remaining directory: > du: `foobar': No such file or directory > > Probably related: I had a similar problem in an older version of > slocate/updatedb (Ubuntu 6.10), where whole subtrees of that disk would be > missing in the database, but haven't had this problem with current versions. > Also, "find" will always find all files. > > version info: > standard Ubuntu 7.10 > coreutils 5.97-5.3ubuntu3 > du (GNU coreutils) 5.97 > Linux hobbes 2.6.22-14-386 #1 Sun Oct 14 22:36:54 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Thanks for the report. Would you please try coreutils-6.9 or the just released coreutils-6.9.90 instead? There have been some improvements in that area: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.90.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.90.tar.lzma _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils