bug#20578: du counts a multiple times bind-mounted directory just for the first listed directory in a directory lists

[Assaf Gordon]

tags 20578 notabug
close 20578
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 14/05/15 08:35 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Toralf Förster wrote:
> > I do bind-mount a directory from the host (~35 GB of downloaded 
> > package files) onto a directory of each of the chroots to save space 
> > and bandwith.
> > A "du -ms" however counts that value just for the first listed 
> > directories
>
> It sounds like 'du' is doing the right thing.  du is supposed to count 
> disk usage, which means it's not supposed to double-count files.

With no further comments in 3 years, I'm closing this bug.
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-assaf