On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Rob van der Heij wrote:

> At 15:46 17-09-02 -0400, Post, Mark K wrote:
>
> >$ du -csh /usr/sbin
>
>  From the peanut gallery: the number reported by 'du'
> is not always what you would save on the parent file
> system when you move this to another block device.
> With hard links the same file can be counted multiple
> times.

Can it?
[root@skink tmp]# dd if=/dev/zero count=5k bs=1024 of=filler
5120+0 records in
5120+0 records out
[root@skink tmp]# du -csh .
146M    .
146M    total
[root@skink tmp]# cp -l filler filler2
[root@skink tmp]# du -csh .
146M    .
146M    total
[root@skink tmp]#



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