On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 05:25:37PM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I want to determine the size of the contents of all directories of a > tree of directories on a hexacore AMD64 machine with 4GB RAM an one > harddisk (containing that tree) -- most efficiently (least time > consuming).
A bit late to the game, but here is my way for this. For a one-off thing, I use the already-mentioned excellent ncdu, which provides vi-style navigation and even offers interactive deletion. du is a viable option for quick use on smaller lists. But when it comes down to actual comparable lists to be stored and archived, I like to use tree. In particular, I use it to store lists of content of my external harddisks, so I can find out what I stored where without having to turn the disks on, including used disk space. For that purpose, I use two different outputs. One paints the tree as such using ascii art, showing the size next to the indented name: tree -ax -n --du -h --dirsfirst The other one is a tabular format that is easier to look at in long lists, because it aligns size and date and prints the whole path, which also makes it easier to diff: tree -afx -DFins --dirsfirst --du --timefmt "%F %T" Tata -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. I had a problem and used Java. Now I have a ProblemFactory.
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