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# 1  
Old 10-07-2015
Command to find file system details on AIX
Hi ,

Could you please tell me how to find the following on AIX?

1.Command to find file system details?
2.What are all the files exist under a specific directory along with their sizes?

In general we use,

du -sh * | grep M under a directory which returns files having size of MB,
du -sh * | grep G under a directory which returns files having size of GB in Linux. But this du -sh command in not working on AIX. Similarily I am looking for similar type of command on AIX.

I hope my request is clear.

Os version -- AIX 3 5


Regards,
Maddy
Last edited by Don Cragun; 10-07-2015 at 10:20 PM.. Reason: Get rid of COLOR tags; add ICODE tags.
# 2  
Old 10-07-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Maddy123
Hi ,

Could you please tell me how to find the following on AIX?

1.Command to find file system details?
2.What are all the files exist under a specific directory along with their sizes?

In general we use,

du -sh * | grep M under a directory which returns files having size of MB,
du -sh * | grep G under a directory which returns files having size of GB in Linux. But this du -sh command in not working on AIX. Similarily I am looking for similar type of command on AIX.

I hope my request is clear.

Os version -- AIX 3 5


Regards,
Maddy
You've been working in these forums long enough to know that telling us something like:
Quote:
But this du -sh command in not working on AIX.
without showing us the diagnostics produced (if there are any) of the results you are getting (if there are any) makes it hard for us to help you.

Your description of what du -sh | grep '[GM]' does on a Linux system is not correct unless the directory in which you run it contains no directories. Are there any directories in the directory where you want to run these commands? Are there any sparse files in the directory where you want to run these commands? Do you not care about Terabyte sized files?

And du does not give you file system details; it gives you filesystem hierarchy disk block allocation counts. (Where the filesystem hierarchies can be single files, single directories, or multiple nested filesystems depending on the operands you give it to process.)

Would the command ls -lSd give you the data you need and would a shell or awk arithmetic comparison on field 5 of the ls output to select the file sizes you want from the output be sufficient?
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Maddy123
# 3  
Old 10-08-2015
on AIX you can say either du -sm or du -sg
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Maddy123
# 4  
Old 10-08-2015
Hi Don/Agent,

Thanks. I am able to list files under directories with their sizes using commands du -sm / du -sg.


Regards,
Maddy
Last edited by Don Cragun; 10-11-2015 at 07:14 PM.. Reason: Add ICODE tags.
# 5  
Old 10-09-2015
du/df -sh is a GNU aka coreutils convention. I doubt IBM will ever support "-h" and I know coreutils is not going to support "-g" - because I asked. The answer was: we have "-h".

Anyway, to summarize what you are seeing (I switched to root, because not all directories were directly readable - saving you that)

I just type the request - and it works!
Code:
michael@x071:[/home/michael]su
root's Password: 
michael@x071:[/home/michael]du -sh
1.7G    .

Some debugging - use full pathname for IBM AIX du
Code:
michael@x071:[/home/michael]/usr/bin/du -sh
/usr/bin/du: Not a recognized flag: h
Usage: du [-a | -s] [-rlkmgx] [ -H | -L ] [Name ...]

So, what am I using?
Code:
michael@x071:[/home/michael]which du
/opt/bin/du
michael@x071:[/home/michael]lslpp -w /opt/bin/du
  File                                        Fileset               Type
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  /opt/bin/du
                                      aixtools.coreutils.rte        File

And, if you are interested in playing with coreutils on AIX (from AIX 5.3 TL7 and later) trying installing coreutils and gettext (GNU text internationalzation) from either aixtools (that I package), or from Perzl site.
The key difference is I package for installp and he packages from rpm

See coreutils - AIXTOOLS and gettext - AIXTOOLS - or AIX Open Source Packages | Main / coreutils

Playtime! - And hope this helps Smilie
# 6  
Old 10-11-2015
Hi Michael,

Your command is not helpful. I am unable to find answers I am looking for using your commands.Smilie

Code:
$ cd /oraarch01/tivtcprd
$ du -sh
du: Not a recognized flag: h
Usage: du [-a | -s] [-rlkmgx] [ -H | -L ] [Name ...]
$ lslpp -w /oraarch01/tivtcprd


Regards,
Maddy
# 7  
Old 10-11-2015
Sorry for the confusion then. I reply to be of assistance, not to harm.

The IBM versions of du and df do not know the option 'h' - which is the option GNU uses as a wildcard for sizes.

From the GNU man page for du:
Code:
     DU(1)           GNU coreutils 8.24 (October 2015)           DU(1)

          -h, --human-readable
               print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)

The -w option for lslpp is to show where a command comes from (or which fileset it comes from. So, my example was to show where the commands du come from - and should have been like this - to prevent confusion!

Code:
root@x065:[/home/root]lslpp -w /usr/bin/du /opt/bin/du
  File                                        Fileset               Type
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  /usr/bin/du                                 bos.rte.commands      File
  /opt/bin/du
                                      aixtools.coreutils.rte        File

Hoping this - well - helps Smilie

If you need/want support for the -h option you will need to get GNU coreutils for AIX.
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