Easy way to see how much disk space takes up - do you know of one?
Anti, pardon my ignorance but that went over my head in light speed. I need some instructions cause I don't have a clue what "du" is or what exactly I do with it.
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fairhousing posted this at 22:46 — 25th May 1999.
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Is there a script out there or something that will help me see what exactly is taking up so much disk space. Currently, the only method I have for seeing how much each takes up is by looking at each file individually. Is there a way to rank them according to how much space they take up, so the biggest will be listed first. I understand if you think this post is incoherent, it's a bit past my bedtime.
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Anonymous posted this at 22:53 — 25th May 1999.
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the du-function is supposed to show you the size of each file or directory on your devices on a unix-system.
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for example, to show the size of all files in bytes type:
du -b
to create a file and write the results into it (might be very useful since you will probably not be able to read faster than the computer prints
du -b >filename.txt
by the way, you can get help from unix by typing:
man du, this will print the manual for the du-command or use:
du --help to get a short summary
cu
patrick
anti posted this at 23:23 — 25th May 1999.
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on a unix host i wouldn't even consider using perl.
try:
du
or du -s
or du -s sort -n
I like the last one. It tell's you which are the biggest sub-dirs of the current dir.
In perl I'd use the dir-traversing module and stat every file, but that's very slow. Try using du.
(Even if you use a windows-host - why should you - there is a du.exe somewhere out there.)
ciao
Anti
anti posted this at 23:02 — 26th May 1999.
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thanx for stepping in pat.
the "-s" option just shows the sum.
there should be a pipe ("") between du -s and sort -n,
this will sort the output of du -s assuming that the first column is numeric.
ciao
anti
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