A more specific answer is that * doesn't catch the hidden ( .* ) files and directories. If you want to know the sizes of the current directory, and also get a summary of what's in each first-level directory, you acn go: du --max-depth=1 . (the '.' isn't necessary, since that's the default, but I like to know exactly what I'm asking for). Penny wrote: > Hi,all > run `du * -sh` in a nfs mounted directory. But it only reports about 1/10 of the right size. That is, I have about 8G files in all directories but `du` only reports about 800M. Btw, the nfs server is running `ms service for unix v3`. > Does anyone meet the same problem here? Thank u in advance. -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication. Transformation touching the jewel within each person and bringing it to light. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
