In trying to verify that a copy-operation completed successfully (or at least that it didn't skip any files), I ran du -b
inside the source and destination directory and it showed a difference of about 100KB.
So, I went tracking down the difference and found one (of many) leaf-directory where du
reports a difference in total size for the copy and the original.
The strange thing is that ls -l
shows these directories as perfectly identical!
Here are the two outputs in the two different directories:
root@...:/local/.../DCIM/100___12# du -b
5286222389 .
root@...:/local/.../DCIM/100___12# ls -l --block-size=1
total 5292851200
-rwxr--r-- 1 markus markus 2167504 Aug 5 2013 IMG_0004.JPG
-rwxr--r-- 1 markus markus 2236594 Aug 5 2013 IMG_0005.JPG
...
vs.
root@...:/local_old/.../DCIM/100___12# du -b
5286226485 .
root@...:/local_old/.../DCIM/100___12# ls -l --block-size=1
total 5292851200
-rwxr--r-- 1 markus markus 2167504 Aug 5 2013 IMG_0004.JPG
-rwxr--r-- 1 markus markus 2236594 Aug 5 2013 IMG_0005.JPG
...
Note how the size reported by du -b
is less than that reported by ls -l
and that it differs for the two directories. The entire output of ls -l
is identical for both directories.
There are no symlinks or system files in this directory. It's just a bunch of .jpg files (a direct copy off a camera's SD-card) and a Thumbs.db-file that Windows created for them (via samba)...
Am I missing something about how these commands should work?
(I'm running Debian Wheezy and uname -a
outputs Linux ... 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
)