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Is there any way to speed up the du command? I mean short of having |
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cron run it on target directories and store results. (not really |
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speeding up but at least not having to wait for a result) |
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I've seen various mention of du being slow but don't recall any |
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mentions of how to speed it up. |
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I use Reiserfs with default sizes. In some situations like a large |
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cache of nntp messages of several GB. I might wait 5-10 minutes or more |
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for du to get the size of the directory. |
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Are there other file systems that can return a result of `du' faster? |
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I'm curious how `df' computes sizes so much quicker. Even after |
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rm'ing a large amount of data... `df' sees the difference right away. |
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Or maybe there is some other tool or technique that can quickly tell |
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me the size of a directory or set of directories. |
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