On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:18:43PM +0100, you [Jim Meyering] wrote:
> Ville Herva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Long (non-embedded) softlinks allocate disk blocks to hold the referred path
> > on linux/ext[23] (possibly on other fs's as well). This space is not
&g
Long (non-embedded) softlinks allocate disk blocks to hold the referred path
on linux/ext[23] (possibly on other fs's as well). This space is not
reported by du(1) at all:
mkdir empty; cd empty
ln -fs $(perl -e "print ('a' x 100)") a
du -k a
0 a
perl -e
'($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$r