[Fedora] Re: Alternatives to du

[Alan Cox]

> I started a du on my 250 gig backuppc partition when I read the first 
> message in this thread.  It hasn't finished yet.  It doesn't have a 
> single very large directory - just very many filenames.  I thought this 
> thread was about du taking a long time to complete, not just one kind of 
> layout that exhibits the problem.

Ok That is interesting and since its not a single very large directory
ought not to be happening

Your backuppc partition is on what kind of media and file system ?

Alan