[coreutils] Bug in du with -x flag?

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Ryan Johnson!

>>>    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.

Sorry, I misread your original post...


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 07.04.2013, <04:33>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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