Corinna Vinschen <vinsc...@redhat.com> writes: > On Nov 12 13:59, Óscar Fuentes wrote: >> >> $ du -sh /lib/git-core >> 13M /lib/git-core >> >> Windows Explorer says that d:/msys32/lib/git-core uses 169 MB. Obviously >> `du' is wrong because that directory contains lots of executables, using >> 1.5 MB each. > > No, Windows Explorer is wrong. It doesn't grok the concept of > hardlinks, even though NTFS supports them since its birth in the last > century.
I thought of links too, but MSYS2 `ls -l' command doesn't show anything that could indicate its existence. But then I learnt that hardlinks aren't displayed by `ln -l'. `ln -i' indeed shows the same number for each identical file. Thanks Corinna for putting me on the right track. Is this new on MSYS2 or MSYS already had the capability of creating hard links? BTW, `dir' command on the Windows shell doesn't know about hardlinks either :-/ Saving so much space is another point in favor of pacman, because downloading tarballs and installing with `tar' doesn't create those hardlinks, does it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
