Re: du missing files on vfat

[Jim Meyering]

"Wolfram Kresse" <address@hidden> wrote:
> du seems to miss files/directorys on vfat filesystems. Only a certain amount 
> of the filesystem (which seem to correspond to almost exactly 100000 files) 
> will be processed, for the rest of the filesystem the following error is 
> printed, for each remaining directory:
> du: `foobar': No such file or directory
>
> Probably related: I had a similar problem in an older version of 
> slocate/updatedb (Ubuntu 6.10), where whole subtrees of that disk would be 
> missing in the database, but haven't had this problem with current versions. 
> Also, "find" will always find all files.
>
> version info:
> standard Ubuntu 7.10
> coreutils 5.97-5.3ubuntu3
> du (GNU coreutils) 5.97
> Linux hobbes 2.6.22-14-386 #1 Sun Oct 14 22:36:54 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks for the report.
Would you please try coreutils-6.9 or the just released coreutils-6.9.90
instead?  There have been some improvements in that area:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.90.tar.gz
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.90.tar.lzma