I think the problem might be because you are using cp -R instead of cp -dR. The /lib directory likely contains both files and links (hard or soft). [I'm on a Windows PC right now so I can't check :-(]. If you just use cp -R then you will possibly be duplicating the files. Eg if in the source you have: File a (say 100kB) A link to a called b (only takes a few bytes) Then doing cp -R will give you: File a (100kB) File b (100kB) I suggest you do an ls -ial to check the status of both directories to check whether this happened. -- Charles -----Original Message----- From: Skumar [mailto:skumar@mistralsoftware.com] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 11:25 p.m. To: yaffs Subject: yaffs taking more space Hi, i am copying files & the size of files on yaffs on more. here r the logs i have copied /lib to yaffs size of /lib on ext2 is 2.1M but on yaffs it is 4.3M i am not able to understand what is happening? Regards Sharath Linux login: root [root@Linux /root]$df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ram0 7931 5278 2244 70% / /dev/mtdblock1 11248 96 11152 1% /mnt/NAND [root@Linux /root]$cd /lib [root@Linux /lib]$du -h 2.1M . [root@Linux /lib]$df -h Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ram0 7.7M 5.2M 2.2M 70% / /dev/mtdblock1 11.0M 96.0k 10.9M 1% /mnt/NAND [root@Linux /lib]$cp -R /lib /mnt/NAND/ [root@Linux /lib]$cd /mnt/NAND/ [root@Linux NAND]$du -h 4.3M ./lib 0 ./lost+found 4.3M . [root@Linux NAND]$cd lib [root@Linux lib]$du -h 4.3M . $df -h Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ram0 7.7M 5.2M 2.2M 70% / /dev/mtdblock1 11.0M 4.4M 6.5M 40% /mnt/NAND [root@Linux lib]$cat /proc/yaffs YAFFS built:Mar 28 2004 15:29:50 $Id: yaffs_fs.c,v 1.32 2003/10/29 20:42:34 charles Exp $ $Id: yaffs_guts.c,v 1.33 2003/11/16 07:40:42 charles Exp $ Device yaffs startBlock......... 1 endBlock........... 703 chunkGroupBits..... 0 chunkGroupSize..... 1 nErasedBlocks...... 423 nTnodesCreated..... 700 nFreeTnodes........ 28 nObjectsCreated.... 100 nFreeObjects....... 62 nFreeChunks........ 13597 nPageWrites........ 0 nPageReads......... 70 nBlockErasures..... 0 nGCCopies.......... 0 garbageCollections. 0 passiveGCs......... 0 nRetriedWrites..... 0 nRetireBlocks...... 0 eccFixed........... 0 eccUnfixed......... 0 tagsEccFixed....... 0 tagsEccUnfixed..... 424 cacheHits.......... 0 nDeletedFiles...... 0 nUnlinkedFiles..... 0 nBackgroudDeletions 0 useNANDECC......... 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------- This mailing list is hosted by Toby Churchill open software (www.toby-churchill.org). If mailing list membership is no longer wanted you can remove yourself from the list by sending an email to yaffs-request@toby-churchill.org with the text "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) as the subject. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This mailing list is hosted by Toby Churchill open software (www.toby-churchill.org). If mailing list membership is no longer wanted you can remove yourself from the list by sending an email to yaffs-request@toby-churchill.org with the text "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) as the subject.