On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:03:57PM +0200, 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.

du(1) from GNU fileutils, which is used by most every Linux distribution,
gets this right and only counts hardlinked files once (unless you explicitly
ask it to do otherwise).

--
 - mdz

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