in reply to Total size of each Directory

Along the lines of what bart and liz said you also want to decide how you count symlinks.

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Re: Re: Total size of each Directory
by revdiablo (Prior) on Jul 28, 2003 at 21:13 UTC

    Don't forget hard links either. These can skew the results dramatically... Two "separate" files that are literally pointing to the same block of disk, but are counted twice, can be a major problem. I know this from experience. :)