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Hello!
I'm using Back-In-Time for backups. Out of curiosity, I wanted to know, how big the snapshots are and came across the FAQ:
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/wiki/FAQ#how-can-i-check-if-my-snapshots-are-incremental-using-hard-links
They recommend:
du -hd1 /media/<USER>/backintime/<HOST>/<USER>/1/
Say I have a subdirectory structure in that folder like this:
+ 2015 I + FileA 1GB Inode 123 + 2016 I + FileA 1GB Inode 123 + 2017 + FileA 1GB Inode 123
Now du returns something like: 1G 2016 0G 2015 0G 2017 1G .
So the hardlinked FileA is reported only once (this is actually the desired feature, to not report it thrice).
But now the order determines, which folder the size is reported against. But I had to learn, that the order of items in the filesystem is unpredictable:
https://serverfault.com/questions/406229/ensuring-a-repeatable-directory-ordering-in-linux#answer-675748
I'd like to suggest to add some sort-controlling options known from ls --sort
The desired behavior in this case would be either alphabetical or reverse-alphabetical to attribute the FileA to the first or last appearance in the tree respectively.
Thanxs
Holger
PS: coreutils 8.25 with ext4 file-system
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