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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to consume all available space on partition? Post 302897689 by bbq on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 12:20:38 PM
Old 04-15-2014
Hi Robin

Thanks but I am hoping to perhaps calculate the size in bytes and then create a file in a directory about that size... Perhaps using something like dd?

I wouldn't want the automation suite hanging up for a long time while it generated the files.

This might work though if I create a file that is MB's in size and then copy it until I run out of space.

The idea though, is to leave so little space that the files being loaded would fail to copy across from the source server. So some sort of calculation of size will be required.

Calculating it in K might be accurate enough though. If I just leave a couple of K free then the files will certainly be too large.

Cheers

Brad
 

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mdu(1)							      General Commands Manual							    mdu(1)

Name
       mdu - display the amount of space occupied by an MSDOS directory

Note of warning
       This  manpage  has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete.  See the
       end of this man page for details.

Description
       Mdu is used to list the space occupied by a directory, its subdirectories and its files. It is similar to the du command on Unix.  The unit
       used are clusters.  Use the minfo command to find out the cluster size.

       mdu [-a] [ msdosfiles ... ]

       a      All files.  List also the space occupied for individual files.

       s      Only list the total space, don't give details for each subdirectory.

See Also
       Mtools' texinfo doc

Viewing the texi doc
       This  manpage  has  been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation. However, this process is only approximative, and some
       items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in this translation process.  Indeed, these items have no appropriate repre-
       sentation  in  the manpage format.  Moreover, not all information has been translated into the manpage version.	Thus I strongly advise you
       to use the original texinfo doc.  See the end of this manpage for instructions how to view the texinfo doc.

       *      To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the following commands:

		     ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi

       *      To generate a html copy,	run:

		     ./configure; make html

	      A premade html can be found at: `http://mtools.linux.lu' and also at: `http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools'

       *      To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), run:

		     ./configure; make info

       The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html.  Indeed, in the info version certain examples are difficult to read due  to  the
       quoting conventions used in info.

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