Re: du missing files on vfat

[Jim Meyering]

"Wolfram Kresse" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:25:09 +0100, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> "Wolfram Kresse" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> du seems to miss files/directorys on vfat filesystems.
>>
>> 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:
>
> Ah, yes, thank you!
> 6.9.90 is working.

Thanks for the confirmation.

> Interestingly, even the Ubuntu development version seems to still use 5.97.
> Is there a reason not to switch to 6.x?

Looking at the summary of improvements and bug fixes since 5.9x,

    http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=NEWS

I'd say that there are well over 100 reasons to upgrade ;-)