[coreutils] Bug in du with -x flag?

Sat Apr 6 17:47:00 GMT 2013

On 06/04/2013 7:48 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Dave Korn!
>>>> Hi list,
>> I always used to use du with the -cxhs options, but since updating to the
>> latest (8.15-1) version there appears to be a problem caused by -x:
>>> $ ls -la
>>> total 392188
>>> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 6 00:35 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 3 05:58 ..
>>> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 3 16:28 gcc4
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 DKAdmin None 401599997 Apr 6 00:43 gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
>>>>>> $ du -xh gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
>>>>>> $ du -h gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
>>> 383M gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
>>>>>> $
>> Unless I'm misunderstanding it badly, -x shouldn't make any difference when
>> counting a real file in the current directory. I wonder if it could have
>> perhaps been introduced by the recent related bugfix that I read about in
>> /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS:
>>> du -x no longer counts root directories of other file systems.
>>> [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]
>> or perhaps some interaction between that and Cygwin's path conversion code?
> 401599997/1024/1024 = 382.985Mb
> Seems proper to me.
The problem is not the size reported by du -h... it's that du -x doesn't 
list the file at all.
Ryan
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