Alternatives to du

[Mark Haney]

I have a need to determine the amount of space used in a particular 
folder, but don't really want to use du because of the beating my RAID 
array takes.  (Usually 6 hours or so on a RAID 5 for a folder with about 
350GB of data)  Are there any other similar tools out there that don't 
require smacking around my hard drives to get the data and don't take 
hours to run?


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Ita erat quando hic adveni.

Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415