Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:21:23 +0100 Fernando Meira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You been running that du -s command to huh? It does work. I really > > need it on my old 200MHz machine. Would you happen to know what that > > command does? I read the man page but it didn't help much. I'm > > learning though. > > The idea is to cache all files into memory so that a re-run through those > files goes faster. The command du takes all files of the dir you provide to > calculate the amount of space used. Of course, you could use any other > command that runs through the files... :) du doesn't run through the files, just the directories. But this helps enough with filesystems that don't use sorted/weighted trees for the directory structure. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
