[Fedora] Re: Alternatives to du
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Tue Apr 10 16:12:19 UTC 2007
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> alan wrote:
>> That sounds like an indicator of a bigger problem. On an unraided
>> 330GB drive, du takes a fraction of that to complete. (I would have to
>> run a test to get actual times.) Sounds like there is something else
>> going on.
> That would depend on the amount of physical files on the drive. You
> can have 100 massive files and du will run nice and fast, or you can
> have 1,000,000 tiny files and folders and du will take its dear sweet
> time to run.
>
this is exactly my problem I believe. I have a 4TB RAID SAN and the
problem directory holds well over a million small files. Even a
directory under that directory, du takes almost 40 minutes to total up 74GB.
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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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