Re: fine-tuning du -h ?

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

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:
>
> like /home/oswald but du -sh returns a error that /home/oswald/pan/cache
> is not readable ( something about input-output error. 
>
>  
I don't want to worry you or anything, sounds like dud disk or dud data 
to me. In your position, I'd take myself off to the local computer shop 
and get a new disk drive soonest.

At worst, you might not actually need it, but you'll have a fine backup 
device.

> > du -sh /some_dir
> >
> > It's in the manpage, oddly enough.
> >    
>
> 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... 
>  

Odds are if fails and you don't see the error because of all the 
extraneous noise.


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John

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