du: strange behaviour

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 17:44:35 UTC 2014


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I speculate that whatever mechanism you used to populate your root
> > filesystem on the arm broke the hardlinks and created many identical
> > files with different names in that directory.
>
>
> Um, that's the way it's supposed to be e.g. crunchgen(1).


I hope you're just confused here. There should be many hard links to a
single file, not many *copies* of that file.

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