tag 10863 notabug thanks On 02/21/2012 05:22 AM, George R Goffe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running the du command from / and am seeing other file systems even > though -x is specified. > > > Here's the full command + args: du -xs -- .??* * | sort -k1nr | more
> Am I doing something wrong or misunderstanding something? There's your problem. -x applies to each command line argument, but you are passing multiple command line arguments. Therefore, you are computing the disk usage of /usr and all subdirectories within the same device as /usr, of /opt and all subdirectories within the same device as /opt, and so forth. If you really wanted to compute the usage of just / and all subdirectories on the same device as /, then use du -x /, not du -x /*. I'm closing this out as not a bug, as the du was doing what it was asked after the shell glob expansion is taken into account. Side note - your glob does not list all files. It's possible to name a file '.a', which matches neither '.??*' nor '*'. To properly catch _all_ files, you need three globs, as in '.??* * .[!.]'. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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