Re: disk usage

From: Chi Zhang (zhangchi@MIT.EDU)
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 20:01:27 EST


I used:

du -sk *

a lotta junks about no permission to read directories. but still, get
the big bulks.

got this by watching Tancredi or some one doing it. I think he had root
access so things worked more smoothly.

Chi

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Nikolas Meitanis wrote:

> Yes, I ahve tried du and every single flag I could find...it wouldnt sum up.
> Chi just did it somehow...
>
> And since this WILL happen again next week, can we get rid of some of those
> users?
> The ones who are not actually "using"?
>
> n
>
> Eugene J. Geis wrote:
>
>> The command is 'du' and there's a buttload of flags that can be piped into
>> sort or something. I think you have to be root user to see actual numbers
>> because it won't give you sizes of files you're not authorized to read.
>>
>> eugene
>>
>> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/index.jsp?
>> topic=/com.ibm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds2/du.htm
>>
>>
>>
>>>> I should know this: how does one find out the amount of space every user
>>>> is using
>>>> on home/blast??
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> n
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Eugene Geis
>> PhD Student, Physics Department, ASU
>> Research Affiliate, MIT-Bates Laboratory of Nuclear Science
>> eugene.geis@asu.edu
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> http://quickreaction.blogspot.com
>>
>



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