Paging Matthew Seaman
Paul Schmehl
pauls at utdallas.edu
Fri Jan 4 11:30:02 PST 2008
--On Friday, January 04, 2008 13:35:56 -0500 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:03:51PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
>> --On Friday, January 04, 2008 17:18:51 +0000 Matthew Seaman
>> <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
>>
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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.
>
> I may be missing what you want, but I try CDing to the directory
> and then doing the du -hs * eg
> cd /tmp
> du -hs *
>
> It seems to get it when naming the directory doesn't.
>
Thanks, Jerry. This turns out to be quite useful - actually a better solution
than what I had in mind.
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Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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