Re: [gentoo-user] Record sizes of directories of a directory tree (huge) most efficiently

[Frank Steinmetzger]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 07:03:07PM -0600, Dale wrote:

> >> 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.
> > [...]

> Have you seen this tool?
>
> sys-fs/treesize
>
> It seems to be a tool more along the lines of what you are doing.  I

Well I have filelight and kdirstat for that, but those are all graphical.
What I use tree for is to archive the stats of a directory (and all of its
files) into a file for when I want to look at it withouth actually having to
plug in the drive. And if I can do that within my beloved Vim, all the
better. :)

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