Dean S. Messing wrote, On 03/13/2008 10:48 PM:
I have a sequence of directories that have many multiply
(cross)hardlinked files, and I'd like to see what their
"true" sizes are. These dirs are backup directories
created with something like:
rsync -a --delete --link-dest=/mnt/bkup/backup_A/ \
/dir_to_back_up /mnt/bkup/backup_B/
By "true" sizes I mean this:
Say backup_A was created first. If I do `du_true
backup_A' I shd. see its size. Now I delete some files
in "/dir_to_back_up" and create some other new files.
Now I create "backup_B" with the above rsync command. I'd
like for my mythical `du_true' to compute the
incremental change in size from backup_A to backup_B.
This seems like a non-trivial problem but maybe I'm just
missing something simple.
Dean
perhaps you are looking for `du -l` ??
-l, --count-links
count sizes many times if hard linked
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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
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