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Tiny Core Base => TCB Bugs => Topic started by: adrian on June 05, 2012, 02:41:04 PM

Title: du not taking files with same inodes into account (tcl 4.5.3)
Post by: adrian on June 05, 2012, 02:41:04 PM: Hi all,

I'd first like to say TCL is is AWESOME!!! But now, I'd like to report a failing. :-[

The du utility isn't reporting space correctly. A hard linked file should show up as not taking up so much space (only the size of the pointer to the inode). Here is an example.

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$ printf "% *s" $((1024*12)) '' > file1 $ cp -l file1 file2 $ ls -li file* 14700 -rw-r--r-- 2 backup backup 12288 Jun 5 21:18 file1 14700 -rw-r--r-- 2 backup backup 12288 Jun 5 21:18 file2 $ du -a file* 12.0K file1 12.0K file2
As you can see they are the same inode so I was expecting file1 to show up as 12.0K and file2 to be much less (around 1-4K) when using du. Is there a quick fix for this? I need this to display overhead for a backup server that I'm making.

Thanks all,

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P.S. Could someone fix the settings on this forum? If I use the code tag, it says I am not allowed to post external links and keeps me from posting. :(

P.P.S. Looks like it is not enforced after the first post.
Title: Re: du not taking files with same inodes into account (tcl 4.5.3)
Post by: adrian on June 05, 2012, 03:19:18 PM: Oh, FYI, I tried it on TCL 4.5.4 with the same bug.

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Title: Re: du not taking files with same inodes into account (tcl 4.5.3)
Post by: adrian on June 05, 2012, 11:50:04 PM: For now, I dled the gcc and support files and built the coreutils. They all didn't compile, but they did compile up to compiling du so I'm happy about that. I just need the du util anyway. :)

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Title: Re: du not taking files with same inodes into account (tcl 4.5.3)
Post by: curaga on June 06, 2012, 02:12:38 AM: Please report busybox bugs to busybox. Also there would have been coreutils.tcz ;)
Title: Re: du not taking files with same inodes into account (tcl 4.5.3)
Post by: adrian on June 06, 2012, 12:34:23 PM: Duh! Done! ;D

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