topic Re: size of directory with sub directories below it. in Operating System - HP-UX

size of directory with sub directories below it.

Ratzie — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:57:49 GMT

I need to find the size of a directory that is not a mount point. So bdf is useless.

This directory has files and directories below it.
If I do an du -sk /var/dir it returns the defualt size of 8192
I know with files and other directories it is quite huge.

I want to create its own logical volume and need to know had to size it.

Re: size of directory with sub directories below it.

Pete Randall — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:02:46 GMT

du -sk should do it.

# du -sk /var/tmp
32 /var/tmp

Tells me that /var/tmp and anything below amounts to 32K.

Pete

Re: size of directory with sub directories below it.

Sandman! — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:04:27 GMT

du -ks should be all you need unless you are doing this on an nfs mount point.

cheers!

Re: size of directory with sub directories below it.

Mel Burslan — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:06:15 GMT

8192 in your case may not be the default size, but actually the 8MB worth of data accumulated under this directory. Did you try copying another huge file into this directory to see if this size changes or not ?

Otherwise du -sk /directory/name does the magic for me all the time.

Re: size of directory with sub directories below it.

Ratzie — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:57:52 GMT

Thanks everyone