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  1. Bug #416981
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 416981

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rooijan (rrossouw) wrote :

Update. This bug exists in du. I should add this is a virtualbox mounted folder shared from the local host. However Nautilus and ls has the sizes correct so I don't think it matters that it is a virtualbox mount.

rrosso@u910:/media/mediazone$ uname -a
Linux u910 2.6.31-11-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 25 06:37:23 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Du reports wrong size
rrosso@u910:/media/mediazone$ du -sh 2009.TriNations/
767M 2009.TriNations/

Nautilus /media/mediazone
10 items, totalling 6.0 GB

Windows 7 D:\Mediazone\2009.TriNations
5.98 GB (6,425,764,846 bytes)

My own C code I wrote to tally:
rrosso@u910:~/Desktop$ ./myDu /media/mediazone/2009.TriNations/
6.0G /media/mediazone/2009.TriNations/

rrosso@u910:/media/mediazone$ sudo aptitude show coreutils | grep Version
Version: 7.4-2

Filesizes wrong with du:
rrosso@u910:~/Desktop$ du -shL /media/mediazone/2009.TriNations/*
130M /media/mediazone/2009.TriNations/090912_NZvSA.wmv
117M /media/mediazone/2009.TriNations/2009.Tri.Nations.Game.2.South.Africa.vs.New.Zealand.Bloemfontein
110M /media/mediazone/2009.TriNations/e-090919_NZvAUS.wmv
131M /media/mediazone/2009.TriNations/Rugby-(Tri Nations 2009_ South Africa vs. Australia)-2009-08-08-0.mkv
149M /media/mediazone/2009.TriNations/Rugby-(Tri Nations 2009_ South Africa vs. New Zealand)-2009-08-01-0.mkv
132M /media/mediazone/2009.TriNations/Rugby.Union.Tri.Nations.2009.Australia.v.New.Zealand.20090822.Sky.NZ.mp4

Filesizes correct with ls:
rrosso@u910:~/Desktop$ ls -lh /media/mediazone/2009.TriNations/
total 650M
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1.1G 2009-09-12 20:26 090912_NZvSA.wmv
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K 2009-07-27 18:19 2009.Tri.Nations.Game.2.South.Africa.vs.New.Zealand.Bloemfontein
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 876M 2009-09-20 09:17 e-090919_NZvAUS.wmv
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1.1G 2009-08-08 20:06 Rugby-(Tri Nations 2009_ South Africa vs. Australia)-2009-08-08-0.mkv
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1.2G 2009-08-02 13:44 Rugby-(Tri Nations 2009_ South Africa vs. New Zealand)-2009-08-01-0.mkv
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1.1G 2009-08-25 13:44 Rugby.Union.Tri.Nations.2009.Australia.v.New.Zealand.20090822.Sky.NZ.mp4