[Discuss] du question

[Dan Ritter]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 11:48:52AM -0400, dan moylan wrote:
> 
> looking at the sizes of the directories created by
> backintime i am puzzled by a directory which shows up as
> 86M in one instance and 35G in another.  can someone
> please explain what's going on.
> 
> moylan 1[1630] ls
> 20170607-120002-419/  20170607-230005-357/  b1*  last_snapshot@
> moylan 1[1631] du -s *
> 35G	20170607-120002-419
> 86M	20170607-230005-357
> 4.0K	b1
> 0	last_snapshot
> moylan 1[1632] du -s 20170607-230005-357/
> 35G	20170607-230005-357/
> moylan 1[1633] du -s ../
> 35G	../

I don't know backintime, but I'm guessing it uses links to
do file-level snapshots. Bet there's a FAQ.

-dsr-