du -k information

[sheevm]

All,

Can someone advise me how to interpret this

du -k info

6223422 -----Is this 6.2MB?

Thanks
Raji

[Jonathan Fife]

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


So 6223422k would be ~6.2GB

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

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

mfG Peter

[sheevm]

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

[Jonathan Fife]

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.

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Raji

You may have another filesystem within this one.

Hai

[sheevm]

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?

[Bill Hassell]

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.