File size percentage with respect to the directory.

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

Like the bdf command, I would like to find out the percentage of the files in the directory with respect to the size of the directory which contains them.

For example I have a /u01/export directory which is about 4GB used (we will take it as 100% just to compare with each file) and it contains about 20 files in it. Now I want to know in terms of percentages which file is having the maximum used percentage.

Thanks,

Gulam.

[Jim Turner]

Gulam,

This may not get you where you want to be, but perhaps you can use it as the heart of a script to produce the percentages you seek.

Let's say I want to see what is soaking up /var. Here's the command I'd use:

du -kx /var | sort rn | more

This will give me directory usage of /var (and below) in kbytes sorted largest to smallest.

Cheers,
Jim

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Gulam:

How about this for a start (after which you could embellish with 'awk'):

# du -x /usr |sort -rk1n

...JRF...

[Satish Y]

du -skx /u01/export | sort -nrk1 | more

You will get output in Kbytes followed by file name.

Cheers...
Satish.

[Satish Y]

sorry, ignore -s option....

du -kx /u01/export | sort -nrk1 | more

Cheers...
satish.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Gulam,

I whipped this up in about 3 minutes and it should be very close. You simply do dirpct.sh file1 file2 and it displays the filenamem, size, and pct used with respect to the current directory.

Regards, Clay

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Gulam,

I whipped this up in about 3 minutes and it should be very close. You simply do dirpct.sh file1 file2 and it displays the filenamem, size, and pct used with respect to the current directory.


.. oops, here's the attachment.

Regards, Clay

[Jim Turner]

Gulam,

The sort args in my previous reply should of course be prefixed with a "-" as in

du -kx /var | sort -rn | more

Sorry for any confusion (and thanks for the "pro" hat!).

[no points on this one, please]