Disk Usage syntax please

stefaandk · 06-18-2006, 08:34 PM

I am trying to get some disk usage figures.

If I have structure like this

dir1/subdir1
dir2/subdir2

dir2/subdir1
dir2/subdir2
dir2/subdir3

Doing a du -h shows me all, files, subdirs, too much.
doing a du -skh shows me the total size for the whole parent dir but no breakdown of subdirs
doing a du -skhS shows me the dirs but the subdirs as well so still a bit too much.

I want to see the totals for the top dirs dir1 and dir2 only not broken down into subdirs as well.

Any way I can get this view?

Thanks,

gilead · 06-18-2006, 08:41 PM

I'm assuming that you mean the depth should stop at the contents of dir1 and dir2. Does the following do what you need?

Code:

du -sh dir1/* dir2/*

syg00 · 06-18-2006, 09:13 PM

Try --max-depth=1

stefaandk · 06-18-2006, 11:25 PM

the max depth does the trick thanks, the first solution is still showing everything in the specified dirs so not exactly what I was looking for.

Thx for your help.