[Fedora] Re: Alternatives to du

[Mark Haney]

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> alan wrote:
>> 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.
>    That would depend on the amount of physical files on the drive.  You 
> can have 100 massive files and du will run nice and fast, or you can 
> have 1,000,000 tiny files and folders and du will take its dear sweet 
> time to run.
> 

this is exactly my problem I believe.  I have a 4TB RAID SAN and the 
problem directory holds well over a million small files.  Even a 
directory under that directory, du takes almost 40 minutes to total up 74GB.


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