Re: du does not account space allocated by long softlinks

2002-12-08 Thread Ville Herva
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

du does not account space allocated by long softlinks

2002-12-06 Thread Ville Herva
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