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lol, I have been doing rsync based backups since sometime in 2000.  I
have learned a few tricks.

On 10/23/11 00:00, Eric Shubert wrote:
> On 10/22/2011 08:49 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>> How sure are you of that? I guess I assumed that -s would simply
>> summarize the total for each directory entry. Should probably do a test
>> to see if that's indeed true or not.
>>
>
> Thanks Kevin. You are the wise one:
> testdir$ ls -lr *
> -rw-r--r-- 3 shubes shubes 1048576 2011-10-22 20:52 testfile2
> -rw-r--r-- 3 shubes shubes 1048576 2011-10-22 20:52 testfile1
>
> testdir2:
> total 1024
> -rw-r--r-- 3 shubes shubes 1048576 2011-10-22 20:52 testfile21
> testdir$ du -shc *
> 1.1M    testdir2
> 1.1M    total
> testdir$
>
> I really need to quit assuming. You'd think at my age I'd've learned
> better.
>
> Long live du. :)
>

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