Total Hard Disk Usage

kbeaver · 09-02-2003, 11:52 PM

Hi all,
Got another question for you. I am looking for some utility to find the total disk usage of all the partitions. I know that df will display them independently, but I am looking for something that will give me one lump sum. Thanks,

mcd · 09-02-2003, 11:57 PM

try

du -hs /

h for human readable, s to avoid printing subdirectories

kbeaver · 09-02-2003, 11:59 PM

I have already tried that, the problem is I am trying to do it on a huge raid array with like 8 disks, and I do not have permission in all the directories. Also, it takes forever.

Thanks,

zeppelin · 09-03-2003, 10:38 AM

df -h (where h is human again)

fancypiper · 09-03-2003, 10:43 AM

# How much free/used drive space
df -h

# Show disk usage by current directory and all subdirectories
du | less

# What takes up so much space on your box
# Run from the directory in question and the largest chunk shows up last
find $1 -type d | xargs du -sm | sort -g