Re: du does not account space allocated by long softlinks

[Ville Herva]

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:18:43PM +0100, you [Jim Meyering] wrote:
> Ville Herva <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Long (non-embedded) softlinks allocate disk blocks to hold the referred path
> > on linux/ext[23] (possibly on other fs's as well). This space is not
> > reported by du(1) at all:
> >
> > mkdir empty; cd empty
> > ln -fs $(perl -e "print ('a' x 100)") a
> > du -k a
> > 0       a
> > perl -e 
> > '($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,$atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks)=lstat
> >  "a"; print $blocks*512,"\n"'
> > 4096
> >
> > (4096 is the size of one disk block on this fs.)
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> That was fixed a couple of test releases ago.
> 
>   [4.5.1]
>   * du and ls now report sizes of symbolic links (before they'd always report 
> 0)
> 
> The latest is here:
> 
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.gz
>   (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)

Thanks. 

And sorry for not checking the latest releases (I did wade back the ml
archive some months...)


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