Alternatives to du
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Apr 10 15:44:44 UTC 2007
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:10:28AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > I have a need to determine the amount of space used in a particular
> > folder, but don't really want to use du because of the beating my RAID
> > array takes. (Usually 6 hours or so on a RAID 5 for a folder with about
> > 350GB of data) Are there any other similar tools out there that don't
> > require smacking around my hard drives to get the data and don't take
> > hours to run?
> Where else would such a program get the data? Elves?
Man am I cranky this morning. Sorry for the tone. But the point stands. :)
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