Unfortunately, tracking space wasn't me goal. I want to keep track of my symbolic links :-) <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Alex Bligh <<a href="mailto:alex@alex.org.uk">alex@alex.org.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> --On 22 June 2008 09:12:26 -0400 Mag Gam <<a href="mailto:magawake@gmail.com" target="_blank">magawake@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> At my university, we have physical storage in a filesystem, and we assign professors and students space by doing a symbolic link. Basically I want to keep track of physical storage with virtual/logical storage. Thats why I ask :-) </blockquote> </div> If you want to track space usage, I suggest you track it using quota or similar. "man quota" will give you a start. Alex </blockquote></div>