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Fwd: bug in util du (du (GNU coreutils) 7.4), OS Ubuntu 9.10 Rus.

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: aureliano <at> pochtamt.ru
Cc: 6544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6544: Fwd: bug in util du (du (GNU coreutils) 7.4), OS Ubuntu 9.10 Rus.
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:02:01 -0600

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On 06/30/2010 11:41 AM, aureliano <at> pochtamt.ru wrote:

Hello, and thanks for taking the time to write.

> $ du --version
> du (GNU coreutils) 7.4

Consider upgrading; the latest stable version is 8.5.  However, that is
unlikely to be related to your problem.

> 
> But 126440165670 bytes == 123.476.724,287 kb == 117,757 Gb != 20G (du -sh) > 33G (df, full size of partition). :-)

Most likely, you are not seeing a bug, but the effect of hard links and
sparse files.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#df-and-du-report-different-information
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#df-Size-and-Used-and-Available-do-not-add-up

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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