Re: du How does du work?

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From: Oka Setiawan
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 00:00

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In article <55u79a$n5o@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
lbliao <lbliao@alumnae.caltech.edu> wrote:
>How does du work? How does it descend down the filesystem and get the name
>of each file? Is there a command that can recursively descend the file system
>and give the name of the file to do something to? The other option of piping
>or storing may be RAM or harddisk intensive.
---
I have another intriguing fact/question about du.
Why in one of my machine, du will show twice the disk usage than it should?
In another machine (different file server and everything) du works fine.
both running solaris. 
That really freak me out.



Oka Setiawan
oka@tamu.edu
http://ee.tamu.edu/~oka

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Date: 1996/11/11
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