[Fedora] Re: Alternatives to du

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

alan wrote:
> That sounds like an indicator of a bigger problem.  On an unraided 
> 330GB drive, du takes a fraction of that to complete. (I would have to 
> run a test to get actual times.)  Sounds like there is something else 
> going on.
    That would depend on the amount of physical files on the drive.  You 
can have 100 massive files and du will run nice and fast, or you can 
have 1,000,000 tiny files and folders and du will take its dear sweet 
time to run.

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