From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 23:44:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA16517 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 23:44:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xi.omniscient.com (root@moon-c08.aa.net [204.157.220.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA16492 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 23:43:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (smpatel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xi.omniscient.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA02248; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 23:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 23:43:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Sujal Patel X-Sender: smpatel@xi.omniscient.com To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Jim Riffle , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: large files in /stand In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Doug White wrote: > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 802816 Nov 18 1995 chmod > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 802816 Nov 18 1995 chown > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 802816 Nov 18 1995 cksum > > This is perfectly normal. /stand is really a gigantic hardlinked binary. > If you want, you can just delete it if it annoys you. This isn't normal, to the right of "root" you'll see the link count. Since the link count is 1, you are using 802k for EACH of these binaries in /stand. You should have used tar, dump, or something else instead of cp to move your root partitions. > > 18 /stand/info/src > > 37 /stand/info > > 43884 /stand > > > > This isn't a real problem, but I sure could use those extra 40 megs it has > > claimed. > > No, it's more like a meg or so. It's counting each binary as 802k, which > they aren't. Actually du will 'do the right thing' when you have hard-linked binaries. Yours is showing 40M because you are really using 40M. Sujal