Re: [K12OSN] This should be easy but I am stumped.

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Jamie,

You want to see how much space the /home/jamie directory
is occupying on disk?

Here's what I would use:

   du -s /home/jamie

It will still go through every file, tallying up the space,
but then it will only print the total usage.

Hope that helps,

Jim McQuillan
jam@Ltsp.org



On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Jamie McParland wrote:

> Well I almost feel silly for asking but after looking at the man pages and
> args for du and df I am still stumped.
> 
> Example: I need to find out the size of /home/jamie directory.
> 
> Df -h just gives me the sizes of the file system and du seems to crawl
> through every freaken file under the directory I am at. Does any one have
> any clue? 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Jamie
> 
> 
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