Alternatives to du

[alan]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Matthew Miller wrote:

> 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. :)

That sounds like an indicator of a bigger problem.  On an unraided 330GB 
drive, du takes a fraction of that to complete. (I would have to run a 
test to get actual times.)  Sounds like there is something else going on.

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