On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 05:05:35PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > BTW, check this out: > > open:~$ du -sDm ~ftp/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current > 100 /home/ftp/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current > open:~$ du -lsDm ~ftp/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current > 101 /home/ftp/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current > open:~$ > > Where's the extra 1MB coming from? It's not simply the size of the > things pointed at by symlinks, because that would be 7.5Mb: Because some files were hard-linked? No one seems to have mentioned that "-l" is not the right switch to get du to follow symlinks: $ du --help [...] -l, --count-links count sizes many times if hard linked -L, --dereference dereference all symbolic links [...] -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <URL:http://www.debian.org/%7Ecpbs/> PGP2: 1024/B35EE811 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 "You think that's air you're breathing now?" -- Morpheus, "The Matrix" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
