How to get "du -sk *" to work sensibly

Arun Vatsil arun at vatsil.com
Sun Dec 30 10:26:06 UTC 2007


Hello,

but "du -xk --max-depth=1 /" will not include a file say
"/home/user1/movies/virumandi.avi" in its calculation of the disk usage of /
. Is that ok?

vatsil.

On Dec 30, 2007 3:42 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 03:27:58PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 15:25 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:05:29AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 10:36 -0600, Jon Stanley wrote:
> > > > > On 12/28/07, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > So how can I get an idea of the size of the various directories
> on my
> > > > > > root file system?  There seems no easy way.
> > > > >
> > > > > Something like du -xk --max-depth=1 / would work.
> > > > What is wrong with du -s * from /
> > > >
> > > It takes an infinite (well, impossibly long) amount of time when it
> > > hits my remotely mounted NAS server.  It also tells me the space used
> > > on mounts which isn't very useful if I'm trying to work out what's
> > > using all the space on my root disk.
> > >
> > > I want a tool to tell me what's using all the space on one specific
> > > volume/partition.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chris Green
> > >
> > then at / run: du -s {list of directories you want to check}
>
> It's not necessarily at all obvious which directories are mount points
> and which are real, space consumung, directories so {list of
> directories you want to check} isn't easy to create and may well
> change occasionally.
>
> Anyway someone else came up with an effective solution to what I
> want:-
>
>    du -xk --max-depth=1 /
>
> That works exactly as I want showing all directories on the root
> volume but with mount points using no space.  (... and more to the
> point not taking a huge amount of time searching around my network
> drive).
>
> --
> Chris Green
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