On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:11:03PM -0400, aragonx@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > [root@www share]# ls -Rl|wc -l > 39091 That's a relatively small number of files. > [root@www share]# date >> /tmp/du.txt; du -h >> /tmp/du.txt; date >> > /tmp/du.txt > It took 30 seconds. Side note: try time du -h -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
