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Re: minor bug in "du" size calculator in build_all.sh



Rounding error?  Try using '-b' instead of '-m' and see if the numbers
suggest anything?  It's obviously not worth worrying about seriously.

-- Mike


On 2000-05-29 at 17:05 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:

> BTW, check this out:
> 
> open:~$ du -sDm ~ftp/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current
> 100	/home/ftp/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current
> open:~$ du -lsDm ~ftp/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current
> 101	/home/ftp/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current
> open:~$ 
> 
> Where's the extra 1MB coming from?  It's not simply the size of the
> things pointed at by symlinks, because that would be 7.5Mb:




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