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Operating Systems HP-UX Space usage in MB or GB Post 302544366 by DGPickett on Wednesday 3rd of August 2011 02:18:12 PM
Old 08-03-2011
I usually use "du -sk head_dir" or similar options. Comes in K, sorry.

By directory size, do you mean inode size (ls -ld) or space usage (above)? Big directory inodes can slow a system, say from the accidental creation of many files now deleted. Every file search miss reads the whole thing. This can be real bad on dynamic link paths and $PATH. I have never heard of a utility to fix this -- probably fixed on some new fangled file systems. Generally, you have to make a new directory and rename. You can hard link files during the transition, but not directories, of course. You might sym link directories, and then after parent rename, mv them over, deleting the sym link in the way. Think system down time.

If you want usage by group or user, that is a whole tree find and sum that du might not do for you, but who knows, check your du man page. It is good to see what the handling of hard and sym lnks is in these calc, too. Make sure there are no black holes to lock a find / on your system.

Really, usage is in blocks (multiply/divide from there).
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term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n)					 Terminal control					 term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n)

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term::ansi::ctrl::unix - Control operations and queries SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.4 package require term::ansi::ctrl::unix ?0.1? ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::import ?ns? ?arg...? ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::columns ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::rows _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
WARNING: This package is unix-specific and depends on the availability of two unix system commands for terminal control, i.e. stty and tput, both of which have to be found in the $PATH. If any of these two commands is missing the loading of the package will fail. The package provides commands to switch the standard input of the current process between raw and cooked input modes, and to query the size of terminals, i.e. the available number of columns and lines. API
INTROSPECTION ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::import ?ns? ?arg...? This command imports some or all attribute commands into the namespace ns. This is by default the namespace ctrl. Note that this is relative namespace name, placing the imported command into a child of the current namespace. By default all commands are imported, this can howver be restricted by listing the names of the wanted commands after the namespace argument. OPERATIONS ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw This command switches the standard input of the current process to raw input mode. This means that from then on all characters typed by the user are immediately reported to the application instead of waiting in the OS buffer until the Enter/Return key is received. ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw This command switches the standard input of the current process to cooked input mode. This means that from then on all characters typed by the user are kept in OS buffers for editing until the Enter/Return key is received. ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::columns This command queries the terminal connected to the standard input for the number of columns available for display. ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::rows This command queries the terminal connected to the standard input for the number of rows (aka lines) available for display. BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category term of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation. KEYWORDS
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