Subject: Re: bug#20578: du counts a multiple times bind-mounted directory just for the first listed directory in a directory lists

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:20:19 -0600

tags 20578 notabug
close 20578
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 14/05/15 08:35 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Toralf Förster wrote:
>> I do bind-mount a directory from the host (~35 GB of downloaded 
>> package files) onto a directory of each of the chroots to save space 
>> and bandwith.
>> A "du -ms" however counts that value just for the first listed 
>> directories
> 
> It sounds like 'du' is doing the right thing.  du is supposed to count 
> disk usage, which means it's not supposed to double-count files.

With no further comments in 3 years, I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.

-assaf