Re: du -x problem

[olet@debian.org (Ole J. Tetlie)]

>-"Chris Brown" <CBROWN@seitz.com>
>
> Hi all,
>     I have a problem with du.  When I do a "du * -sx" the "-x" flag 
> should exclude other mounted filesystems, but it doesn't.  I was 
> using v3.16 and then upgraded to 4.00, both don't work right.  Can 
> anybody help?

With du 4.0 -x seems to work for me. Are you sure the problem isn't
caused by using '*' ?

For example, this machine has /home on a separate filesystem:

When I do 'cd /; du -sx .' /home is not included becuse it is
on a different filesystem from .

but if I do 'cd /; du -sx *' /home will be included because the
command is expanded to 'du -sx bin boot ... home ...' . This will
first do a du on bin, then on boot, and eventually on home.
Since home is on the same filesystem as itself it will not be skipped.

-x only skips the directories that are on different filesystems from
the argument currently being processed.

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