Re: fine-tuning du -h ?
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:06:45PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote:
> Thomas Adam <thomas@edulinux.homeunix.org> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:33:06PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there a way to let du -h only print the size of a directory?
>
> Sorry I was not clear here, I want to check more then _one_ directory,
> at once:
[n6tadam@station ~]$ sudo du -sh $(pwd) /etc
740M /home/n6tadam
23M /etc
If you wanted the total of both those directories together:
[n6tadam@station ~]$ sudo du -csh $(pwd) /etc
740M /home/n6tadam
23M /etc
763M total
> like /home/oswald but du -sh returns a error that /home/oswald/pan/cache
> is not readable ( something about input-output error.
I'm not going to guess this error. If it is "something like", then my initial
guess is that your drive is screwed.
> Sure it is :-) But since du returns the above error it does not
> finish. du -h /the_directory works but it prints then all files. of
> course I could put the output into a file and then go trough that...
You could do, but that would be pointless, since du can do it for you. Those
I/O errors are not good. What you got in /var/log/messages? Anything to
support them? Sorry I can't be any more specific than that, but you haven't
supplied the error message.
-- Thomas Adam
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