du: strange behaviour

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 12:41:49 -0500
Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Erich Dollansky <
> erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > 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?
> >
> 
> That's what the du man page says.
> 
> 
> > Why is this then different on /rescue for ARM?
> >
> 
> It isn't.
> 
> 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 see, the problem is on the ARM side. I will have to check what went
wrong there.

I did not realise that /rescue contains only a single binary.

Erich