Alternatives to du
aragonx at dcsnow.com
aragonx at dcsnow.com
Tue Apr 10 16:11:03 UTC 2007
> 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?
Huh? Hours?
As a comparison, I ran du on one of my machines.
AMD Duron 1.3Ghz
768MB PC133
WD 120GB UDMA33 (IDE) hard drive
/dev/hdb1 111G 87G 18G 83% /home/data/share
[root at www share]# ls -Rl|wc -l
39091
[root at www share]# date >> /tmp/du.txt; du -h >> /tmp/du.txt; date >>
/tmp/du.txt
It took 30 seconds.
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