Home Directory Size?

carlosinfl · 12-13-2005, 12:13 PM

Is there a way to find out exactly how large my /home/username dir is?

I was wondering to see if this would all fit on a DVD and would I also be able to back this up to DVD? Is there a way to use "cdrecord" to back up my entire home dir? Is that possible?

m_yates · 12-13-2005, 12:17 PM

Code:

du -h /home/username

Gort32 · 12-13-2005, 12:18 PM

du will tell you how much space a directory and all subdirectories are taking up. Use du -m to view it in MB (by default it chooses the best unit so you will get a mix of KB, MB, and GB. du -m -max-depth=1 will limit the output to only one directory deep - the default command spits out a *lot* of output. Finally, piping it to sort may help - du -m --max-depth=1 | sort -g (the -g on sort makes it sort by number, otherwise you get 1, 10, 11, 12...19, 2, 20, 21...etc)

For the burning to CD, look into mkisofs

carlosinfl · 12-13-2005, 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by m_yates

Code:

du -h /home/username

Code:

211G     /home/carlos/

Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gort32

For the burning to CD, look into mkisofs

Doesn't that make an ISO image rather than a normal backup?