du: strange behaviour

Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
Mon Sep 1 17:08:23 UTC 2014


Hi,

On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 11:25:15 -0500
Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Erich Dollansky <
> erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just try to get a Raspberry Pi up and running. I use a FreeBSD
> > installation to do this:
> >
> > FreeBSD X220.alogt.com 10.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-PRERELEASE #44
> > r270870: Mon Sep  1 08:46:27 WITA 2014
> > erich at X220.alogt.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X220  amd64
> >
> > For some reason I did
> >
> > [X220]/rescue (root) > du *
> > 6.6M    [
> >  12K    dhclient-script
> > 4.0K    nextboot
> > 6.6M    total
> > [X220]/rescue (root) >
> >
> > A plain du gives this:
> >
> > [X220]/rescue (root) > du
> > 6.6M    .
> > 6.6M    total
> > [X220]/rescue (root) >
> >
> > If I do the same inside the directory containing /rescue for the
> > Raspberry, I get a list ending with these lines:
> >
> > 5.7M    unxz
> > 5.7M    vi
> > 5.7M    whoami
> > 5.7M    xz
> > 5.7M    xzcat
> > 5.7M    zcat
> > 5.7M    zfs
> > 5.7M    zpool
> > 768M    total
> >
> > This is what I also would have expected for the amd64 directory.
> >
> > Why does du stop after [ but includes the two scripts?
> >
> > Of course, all the other files are also in this directory as shown
> > by ll:
> >
> > total 931792
> > -r-xr-xr-x  138 root  wheel   6.5M Sep  1 09:16 [
> > -r-xr-xr-x  138 root  wheel   6.5M Sep  1 09:16 atmconfig
> > -r-xr-xr-x  138 root  wheel   6.5M Sep  1 09:16 badsect
> > -r-xr-xr-x  138 root  wheel   6.5M Sep  1 09:16 bsdlabel
> > -r-xr-xr-x  138 root  wheel   6.5M Sep  1 09:16 bunzip2
> > -r-xr-xr-x  138 root  wheel   6.5M Sep  1 09:16 bzcat
> > -r-xr-xr-x  138 root  wheel   6.5M Sep  1 09:16 bzip2
> > -r-xr-xr-x  138 root  wheel   6.5M Sep  1 09:16 camcontrol
> > -r-xr-xr-x  138 root  wheel   6.5M Sep  1 09:16 cat
> > -r-xr-xr-x  138 root  wheel   6.5M Sep  1 09:16 ccdconfig
> > -r-xr-xr-x  138 root  wheel   6.5M Sep  1 09:16 chflags
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Does somebody have any ideas?
> >
> 
> man du | grep '\-l'
> du -l *
> 
I do not really get this. The other files are there but not seen
because of hard links in /rescue?

Why is this then different on /rescue for ARM?

Erich


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