Re: bug while using du with > 80 gb directory tree...

Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
RobBlond <[email protected]> wrote:
> i say:
> bash:> du /
>
> he says:
> [...]
> Total Size: -2047307569 bytes
> in  200179 Files
> and 20086 Directories

Thanks for the report.
Please include the version next time (run du --version).
That is almost certainly fixed in the newer versions.
Here's the latest test release:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-4.5.4.tar.bz2
  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)
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