Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:26:19 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: iLLfated <l8tr3000@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Jail Duplication and du wierdness Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304301324070.13980-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030430112711.30774.qmail@web14512.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, iLLfated wrote:
> Lo all,
>
> I wanted to ask if I cp -R or cp -Rp a jail to a new
> path will it work as expected? I tried to copy one
> just recently with both commands, and the resulting
> path seems to report a different du -h size. I
> compared the 2 trees and even diffed the files in the
> trees and they seem to be the same, although du is
> still reporting them as different. Any ideas whats
> going wrong here?
According to the man page,
[[
Files having multiple hard links are counted (and displayed) a
single time per du execution.
]]
Your cp produced multiple instances of filenames that were linked to the
same underlying file in the original jail.
--
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