bug#79096: du: -x doesn't detect sshfs file system

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 2025-07-25 11:25, Stan Marsh wrote:
> it could be argued that -x should cause it to skip (i.e., not descend
> into) any directory which is a mountpoint

That goes too far; people regularly use commands like 'du -x 
/mountpoint' to list just that file system.

It sounds like we have a feature request here for a new option, which 
would behave the way you like. So I have marked the bug report as a 
wishlist item. Not sure whether it's worth implementing....
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