Re: disk usage

From: Frederick Tong-Uk Lee (tong@lns.mit.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 20:11:46 EST


Hi,

"du -sh" will give you more readiable format output ^;^.

Cheers,
-T

Chi Zhang wrote:

>
> 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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