topic Re: du -k information in Operating System - HP-UX

du -k information

sheevm — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:02:10 GMT

All,

Can someone advise me how to interpret this

du -k info

6223422 -----Is this 6.2MB?

Thanks
Raji

Re: du -k information

Jonathan Fife — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:05:46 GMT

According to the du man page:
-k Gives the block count in 1024-byte blocks.

So 6223422k would be ~6.2GB

Re: du -k information

Peter Nikitka — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:07:03 GMT

Hi,

du -k tells us KB - so its
6223422 KB ~ 6GB

mfG Peter

Re: du -k information

sheevm — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:15:23 GMT

There must be something wrong with this "du" commnad what it says in manpages

when I do bdf

/filsystem ----------is 10GB size---used 1.9GB---20%

One of the directory size under this filesysem "du -k" is showing

6223422----This cannot be 6GB

Please comment

Re: du -k information

Jonathan Fife — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:40:37 GMT

Unless you tell it to with the -x flag, du will include all filesystems underneath the directory you are specifying.

For example, 'du -sk /' will add up all the disk usage for your entire server. 'du -sxk /' will only add up usage for the / filesystem.

Re: du -k information

Hai Nguyen_1 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:55:47 GMT

Raji

You may have another filesystem within this one.

Hai

Re: du -k information

sheevm — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:07:08 GMT

No I do not have it.

du -skx gives me on/filesystem

1900000.

du -skx on this directory /filesystem/portal

gives

6223422

How is it the directory size is more than the filesystem?

Re: du -k information

Bill Hassell — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:48:02 GMT

It will make more sense if you display the complete structure (drop the -s):

du -kx /filesystem | sort -rn | head -20

That way, you see the top level, then the largest subdirectory under the top, and so on.