please fix the output of du -h

2010-02-11 Thread dh-bugs
hello using -h with du on a directory tree can produce results several gigabytes *below* the actual value. this is quite annoying (and just plain wrong), especially when trying to burn a cd/dvd. regards, Dennis Heuer dh-b...@online.de

Re: please fix the output of du -h

2010-02-11 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, dh-b...@online.de wrote: using -h with du on a directory tree can produce results several gigabytes *below* the actual value. this is quite annoying (and just plain wrong), especially when trying to burn a cd/dvd. du -h doesn't do what you expect. Quoting the manual: