GNU bug report logs - #14767
du -s reports Infinity

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Marek Otahal <markotahal <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Marek Otahal <markotahal <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14767 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14767: du -s reports Infinity
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:16:14 +0100

On 07/02/2013 09:26 PM, Marek Otahal wrote:
> Ok, I tracked it down a little.
> 
> The 'Infinity' is correctly inherited from subfolders all the way up, it
> boils down to a single .xml file, which claims to be 16 exabytes, it
> obviously isn't :)

Maybe it's file system corruption?
What does fsck say about the file system?

cheers,
Pádraig.
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