Bug 3795 – The -c switch of du in combination with -m reports double size

Bug 3795 - The -c switch of du in combination with -m reports double size

Summary:	The -c switch of du in combination with -m reports double size

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	fileutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-06-29 05:41 EDT by Péter, Soós
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-07-07 14:14:09 EDT
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Description Péter, Soós 1999-06-29 05:41:35 EDT

Here is a result of run:
$ du -sc *
2250708 redhat
956875  redhat-contrib
455493  redhat-rhcn
105135  redhat-security
3768211 total

$ du -scm *
2198    redhat
934     redhat-contrib
445     redhat-rhcn
103     redhat-security
7536422 total

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-07-07 14:14:59 EDT

I have verified this on a 5.2 box in our test lab. But I was unable to
get this to fail using a 6.0 box so I would suggest upgrading to 6.0
to help this problem,

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