> du doesn't count in bytes; it counts in disk blocks or KB. A 12KB > difference is probably just due to better packing of directories in > your newly-created tree as compared to your orignal one. To figure out > where the difference is, run "du -a" in both trees and diff the two > outputs.
What I did to try and track down the problem: du -a ./dirA | sort -n > dirA.tmp; du -a ./dirB | sort -n > dirB.tmp; diff dirA.tmp dirB.tmp; # Exerp of the diff output: < 554372 ./images > 554362 ./images < 17007468 ./video > 17007466 ./video The size discrepancy is the size of the directories, not the files contained within those directories. To be sure I ran: diff -r dirA/images dirB/images; There appears to be no difference in the contents. >du doesn't count in bytes; it counts in disk blocks or KB. A 12KB >difference is probably just due to better packing of directories in >your newly-created tree as compared to your orignal one. So, the size of a directory itself can differ when the contents is identical? This is news to me. Thanks. -Modulok- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"