Alternatives to du

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:11:03PM -0400, aragonx at dcsnow.com wrote:
> [root at www share]# ls -Rl|wc -l
> 39091

That's a relatively small number of files.

> [root at www share]# date >> /tmp/du.txt; du -h >> /tmp/du.txt; date >>
> /tmp/du.txt
> It took 30 seconds.

Side note: try

  time du -h

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