> I have a need to determine the amount of space used in a particular > folder, but don't really want to use du because of the beating my RAID > array takes. (Usually 6 hours or so on a RAID 5 for a folder with about > 350GB of data) Are there any other similar tools out there that don't > require smacking around my hard drives to get the data and don't take > hours to run? Huh? Hours? As a comparison, I ran du on one of my machines. AMD Duron 1.3Ghz 768MB PC133 WD 120GB UDMA33 (IDE) hard drive /dev/hdb1 111G 87G 18G 83% /home/data/share [root@www share]# ls -Rl|wc -l 39091 [root@www share]# date >> /tmp/du.txt; du -h >> /tmp/du.txt; date >> /tmp/du.txt It took 30 seconds. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
