Re: fine-tuning du -h ?

[Josef Oswald <oswald@chello.at>]

Thomas Adam <thomas@edulinux.homeunix.org> writes:

> 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.

Well the other poster got me worried :-) 

I just run fsck.ext2 on the drive, and the problem is solved now :-) 

Thanks for your input :-) 
>
> -- Thomas Adam
> -- 
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