Re: du reports different results for "."

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Bauke Jan Douma wrote on 20-02-08 22:53:
> Mike Frysinger wrote on 20-02-08 21:56:
> > On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Richard Ems wrote:
> > > If I do a "du -s * ." and right afterwards "du -s ." I get different
> > > values for the actual directory ".".
> >
> > the * globa does not match the . directory.  it matches all the files 
> > as expanded by the shell (which does not include the . directory nor 
> > any file that starts with a .)
> > -mike
>
> This can hardly be the answer, can it?
> This is with * .  and  . * respectively:
>
> /usr/src/linux >  du -s * .
> 20    COPYING
> 92    CREDITS
> 10892    Documentation
> 4    Kbuild
> 92    MAINTAINERS
> 52    Makefile
> 292    Module.symvers
> 20    README
> 4    REPORTING-BUGS
> 984    System.map
> 75136    arch
> 844    block
> 4484    crypto
> 169076    drivers
> 53780    fs
> 43948    include
> 424    init
> 428    ipc
> 5412    kernel
> 2588    lib
> 0    make.res
> 3124    make.res.3621
> 4    make.res.4036
> 2584    mm
> 39624    net
> 2672    scripts
> 1160    security
> 23508    sound
> 3692    usr
> 5404    vmlinux
> 6500    vmlinux.o
> 471956    .        <--
>
> /usr/src/linux > du -s . *
> 474044    .        <--
> 20    COPYING
> 92    CREDITS
> 10892    Documentation
> 4    Kbuild
> 92    MAINTAINERS
> 52    Makefile
> 292    Module.symvers
> 20    README
> 4    REPORTING-BUGS
> 984    System.map
> 73048    arch        <-- ?
> 844    block
> 4484    crypto
> 169076    drivers
> 53780    fs
> 43948    include
> 424    init
> 428    ipc
> 5412    kernel
> 2588    lib
> 0    make.res
> 3124    make.res.3621
> 4    make.res.4036
> 2584    mm
> 39624    net
> 2672    scripts
> 1160    security
> 23508    sound
> 3692    usr
> 5404    vmlinux
> 6500    vmlinux.o
>
> /usr/src/linux > du -s arch
> 75136    arch

Ah, the diff must be bzImage:
/usr/src/linux >  find . -type f -links 2 -ls
104974149 2088 -rw-------   2 root     root      2135928 Dec 24 18:32 
./arch/i386/boot/bzImage
104974149 2088 -rw-------   2 root     root      2135928 Dec 24 18:32 ./bzImage

bjd