21474836480 = overflow. This is 500,000,000 in hexadecimal. (500 million)
BTW, your output is extremely specific on your settings in date and such. It depends on whether I want to display the month or not. There is a -ls option in find; no need to pipe this through xargs. So try $ find . -type f -ls | awk '{print $7}' This should give a much smaller footprint on your CPU load. Maybe this "fixes" the "bug" you reported as well, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to coreutils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1004319 Title: du -s show a wrong directory size Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: root@machine1:/data/directory# du -s * 7116400 backup_dir1 root@machine1:/data/directory# find -type f|xargs ls -al|cut -b 23-34 19327352832 424 1983 30 21474836480 421 2211 30 21474836480 422 2110 30 30 8589934592 423 2001 root@machine1:/data/directory# ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: coreutils 8.13-3ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic 3.2.16 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri May 25 07:19:41 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424.1) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en SourcePackage: coreutils UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1004319/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp