Re: [Wlug] inconsistent results with du and multiple arguments

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 06:42:18AM -0400, Brett Russ wrote:

Can anyone explain why du (which advertises the ability to evaluate N file/dir arguments) seems to only be accurate for the first provided argument? See the following:

brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc tmp 60 tmp 60 total brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc tmp bin 60 tmp 1 bin 60 total

Try without the -m argument. You may be seeing round off error.