--On Friday, January 04, 2008 17:18:51 +0000 Matthew Seaman
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Paul Schmehl wrote:
I figure if anyone knows the answer to this off the top of their head,
Matthew will.
Fame at last!
Oh, you've been famous for a while here. :-)
I've been reading the man pages for du and df, but I can't find the
right combination. I'd like to get the type of output that df -h gives
you but only for one mount point or even one directory. Is there a tool
that can do that? (IOW, I'd like to run du -h but only get the totals
for directories.)
Well, for a mount point, the command that will give you output like
'df -h' for a specific partition is (*ta da*) 'df -h' -- tell it a
file or directory and it will tell you all about the partition that
lives on:
% df -h /tmp
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/md0 248M 22K 228M 0% /tmp
This only returns the totals for mount points, however. Not what I was looking
for.
For an arbitrary directory, I assume you want the du(1) style total
space usage figures but in the 'human readable' style? 'du -hs' does
that if you tell it the directory name:
% du -hs /tmp
22K /tmp
You are more adept at understanding man pages than I. I didn't "get" the -s
switch. However, it only returns the single file or directory that I specify.
It's closer to what I wanted than df but not quite there.
As others have suggested else thread, there are a variety of cunning
find + xargs combinations for generating a list of directories and
feeding the list into du(1) automatically.
Yes, and I've concluded that's probably the only way I'm going to get what I
want.
But all this seems to me to be pretty clearly explained in the du(1)
and df(1) man pages so I've probably completely misunderstood what you
are actually asking for.
Nope. You understood.
Thanks to everyone that responded. I'll tweak the suggestions until I get what
I want or some near equivalent of it.
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Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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