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
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: fileutils
Version: 5.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-06-29 09:41 UTC by Péter, Soós
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-07-07 18:14:09 UTC
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Description Péter, Soós 1999-06-29 09:41:35 UTC 
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 18:14:59 UTC 
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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