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From: "David M. Fellows" <fellows@×××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, Meino.Cramer@×××.de
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Record sizes of directories of a directory tree (huge) most efficiently
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:29:02
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In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Record sizes of directories of a directory tree (huge) most efficiently by Meino.Cramer@gmx.de
1 On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:25:37 +0100
2 Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote -
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > I want to determine the size of the contents of all directories of a
6 > tree of directories on a hexacore AMD64 machine with 4GB RAM an one
7 > harddisk (containing that tree) -- most efficiently (least time
8 > consuming).
9 >
10 > I tried this (cwd = root of that tree):
11 >
12 > find . -depth -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -P 6 du -bsx {} \;
13 >
14 > . Is there any to do this faster?
15 >
16 > Thank you very much in advance for any help!
17 > Best regards,
18 > Meino
19
20 man du
21
22 Dave F

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