[SLE] HOWTO: find out how much HD spaced used by a folder
I have maxed out my / drive and I would like to find out how much space is in any given directory (including it's sub directory). I believe the command is du, but I cannot figure out how to make it give me one grand total at the end. How do I go about doing that? -- Sam Carleton ------------ http://www.bigfoot.com/~scarleton (Homepage) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Both "man du" and "info du" describe "du -c" as giving a total at the end. Sam Carleton wrote:
I have maxed out my / drive and I would like to find out how much space is in any given directory (including it's sub directory). I believe the command is du, but I cannot figure out how to make it give me one grand total at the end. How do I go about doing that?
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du -c ? Avi Sam Carleton wrote:
I have maxed out my / drive and I would like to find out how much space is in any given directory (including it's sub directory). I believe the command is du, but I cannot figure out how to make it give me one grand total at the end. How do I go about doing that?
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On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Sam Carleton wrote:
I have maxed out my / drive and I would like to find out how much space is in any given directory (including it's sub directory). I believe the command is du, but I cannot figure out how to make it give me one grand total at the end. How do I go about doing that?
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On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Sam Carleton wrote: sc> I have maxed out my / drive and I would like to find out how much space sc> is in any given directory (including it's sub directory). I believe the sc> command is du, but I cannot figure out how to make it give me one grand sc> total at the end. How do I go about doing that? sc> sc> I use the following, but I tend to the side of overkill when I do things :) anyway, give it a shot find / -size +1024k -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n this will sort everything from smallest to largest no matter what directory the files are in. Takes a bit of time but it's worth it in my opinion sc> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
"S.Toms" wrote:
I use the following, but I tend to the side of overkill when I do things :) anyway, give it a shot
find / -size +1024k -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n ^^^^
well when I run it I get missing argument to 'exec' -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Just use "du -sk <folder name> - Herman On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Togan Muftuoglu wrote: ->>"S.Toms" wrote: ->> ->>> I use the following, but I tend to the side of overkill when I do things ->>> :) anyway, give it a shot ->>> ->>> find / -size +1024k -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n ->> ^^^^ ->> ->>well when I run it I get missing argument to 'exec' ->> ->> ->>-- ->>Togan Muftuoglu ->>toganm@yahoo.com ->> ->>__________________________________________________ ->>Do You Yahoo!? ->>Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. ->>http://im.yahoo.com ->> ->>-- ->>To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ->>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ->>Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ ->> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Herman Knief wrote: hk> Just use "du -sk <folder name> hk> This will work if all he's wanting to know is how big a particular directory with it's subdirectories is, but not where a particularly huge file may be, which is what the original question was asking. For example, heres the output run on my home directory: skull@daydream:~ > find ./ -size +8192k -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n 10364 ./.mozilla/skull/history.dat 10368 ./.netscape/history.dat which shows that I have 2, files larger then 8mg, histroy.dat to be exact residing at the above locations. As for why the -exec errored on him, I've mailed him privately in hopes of assiting him in figuring out what may be the problem even though there may be another way to get the above results, he still shouldn't have gotten that error in the first place. :) hk> - Herman hk> hk> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Togan Muftuoglu wrote: hk> hk> ->>"S.Toms" wrote: hk> ->> hk> ->>> I use the following, but I tend to the side of overkill when I do things hk> ->>> :) anyway, give it a shot hk> ->>> hk> ->>> find / -size +1024k -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n hk> ->> ^^^^ hk> ->> hk> ->>well when I run it I get missing argument to 'exec' hk> ->> hk> ->> hk> hk> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Herman Knief wrote:
hk> Just use "du -sk <folder name> hk>
hk> ->>"S.Toms" wrote: hk> ->> hk> ->>> I use the following, but I tend to the side of overkill when I do things hk> ->>> :) anyway, give it a shot hk> ->>> hk> ->>> find / -size +1024k -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n hk> ->> ^^^^ hk> ->>
I know it may be called creative cheating but running midnight commander and then choosing info C-x i gives me what I want. -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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