Re: How to get "du -sk *" to work sensibly

["Arun Vatsil" <arun@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Note the size of /home below.

[root@vatsil vatsil]# du -xh --max-depth=1 /
0       /misc
500K    /tmp
8.0K    /mnt
0       /sys
527M    /var
0       /proc
25M     /sbin
115M    /etc
56K     /media
16K     /lost+found
0       /net
8.0K    /home
2.0K    /boot
82M     /lib
2.5M    /root
0       /dev
7.8M    /bin

[root@vatsil vatsil]# du -xh --max-depth=1 /home
16K     /home/lost+found
298M    /home/vatsil
298M    /home

[root@vatsil vatsil]#  

Note the size of /home above. Am I missing something?

vatsil.

On Dec 31, 2007 12:06 AM, Chris G < cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:56:06PM +0530, Arun Vatsil wrote:
>
>    Hello,
>    but   "du   -xk   --max-depth=1   /"  will  not  include  a  file  say
>    "/home/user1/movies/virumandi.avi"  in  its  calculation  of  the disk
>    usage of / . Is that ok?

Yes, it *does* include the space consumed by that file.  Don't ask me
what the logic is here but the --max-depth=x option doesn't mean
ignore all space consumed by files below that depth.


>    vatsil.

>
>    On Dec 30, 2007 3:42 PM, Chris G <[1]cl@isbd.net> wrote:
>
>    On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 03:27:58PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>    > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 15:25 +0000, Chris G wrote:
>    > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:05:29AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>    > > > On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 10:36 -0600, Jon Stanley wrote:

>    > > > > On 12/28/07, Chris G <[2]cl@isbd.net> wrote:
>    > > > >
>    >  >  >  >  >  So  how  can  I  get an idea of the size of the various
>    directories on my
>    > > > > > root file system?  There seems no easy way.
>    > > > >
>    > > > > Something like du -xk --max-depth=1 / would work.
>    > > > What is wrong with du -s * from /
>    > > >
>    >  >  It takes an infinite (well, impossibly long) amount of time when
>    it
>    >  >  hits my remotely mounted NAS server.  It also tells me the space
>    used
>    > > on mounts which isn't very useful if I'm trying to work out what's
>    > > using all the space on my root disk.
>    > >
>    >  >  I  want  a  tool  to  tell  me what's using all the space on one
>    specific
>    > > volume/partition.
>    > >
>    > > --
>    > > Chris Green
>    > >
>    > then at / run: du -s {list of directories you want to check}
>
>      It's  not  necessarily  at  all obvious which directories are mount
>      points
>      and which are real, space consumung, directories so {list of
>      directories you want to check} isn't easy to create and may well
>      change occasionally.
>      Anyway someone else came up with an effective solution to what I
>      want:-
>
>       du -xk --max-depth=1 /
>
>      That works exactly as I want showing all directories on the root
>      volume but with mount points using no space.  (... and more to the
>      point not taking a huge amount of time searching around my network
>      drive).
>      --
>      Chris Green
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