Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5.3 Severity: normal Hello Maintainer,
I have a script which I have not more used since Woody and not I have
encountered an error while this script turns my @home office into a
military airbase in alarm start...
Since I use several Fileservers and Servers which are entirely SCSI SCA
15000 RpM Drives (86 HDD's ~14 TByte) I was alarmed by my neighbour
which was bothered by the loudness of my servers!!!
On my Office-Workstation (AMD Sempron 2200+, 3 GByte memory, 10/100 VIA
OnBoard) I have tried to run the command
michelle1:/# du -xsmc /*/
which took arrond 17 hours... on a partiton of 3 GByte!!!
Why? This pig access ANY network drives (NFS shares) it finds...
For example on my Office Workstation:
----[ 'df -m' ]---------------------------------------------------------
Dateisystem 1M-Blöcke Benutzt Verfügbar Ben% Eingehängt auf
/dev/hda1 2819 2544 132 96% /
tmpfs 253 0 253 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10 1 10 2% /dev
/dev/hda3 3753 812 2751 23% /tmp
/dev/hda4 397 128 249 34% /var/log
192.168.0.69:/home 17087 16186 33 100% /home
192.168.0.69:/Maildirs
17087 15932 288 99% /Maildirs
/dev/hdb1 941 725 169 82% /media/hdb/1
/dev/hdb3 2380 9 2253 1% /media/hdb/3
/dev/hdb5 2831 1095 1593 41% /media/hdb/5
/dev/hdb6 2831 1095 1593 41% /media/hdb/6
/dev/hdb7 2831 1095 1593 41% /media/hdb/7
/dev/hdb8 4705 1892 2575 43% /media/hdb/8
/dev/hdb9 1778 308 1376 19% /media/hdb/9
/dev/hdb10 3747 209 3349 6% /media/hdb/10
/dev/hdb11 34308 7381 25210 23% /media/hdb/11
192.168.0.69:/home_www
8540 6421 1685 80% /home_www
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----[ 'du -xsmc /*/' ]--------------------------------------------------
85760 /Maildirs/
4 /bin/
24 /boot/
1 /dev/
13 /etc/
816014 /home/
12006274 /home_www/
1 /initrd/
100 /lib/
1 /lost+found/
1 /media/
1 /mnt/
1 /opt/
515 /proc/
2 /root/
5 /sbin/
1 /srv/
0 /sys/
748 /tmp/
2099 /usr/
232 /var/
12911797 total
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and another test with an interesting result...
----[ 'du -smc /media/ /var/ /var/log/ /tmp/' ]-------------------------
13682 /media/
352 /var/
120 /var/log/
748 /tmp/
14900 total
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As you can see, /media/ was excluded entirely, while /var/log/ partialy
and not /tmp/ not from this run.
Now a third test using the "-x" option:
----[ 'du -xsmc /media/ /var/ /var/log/ /tmp/' ]------------------------
1 /media/
232 /var/
120 /var/log/
748 /tmp/
1099 total
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and a fourth test:
----[ 'du -xsmc /media/hdb/*/ /var/ /var/log/ /tmp/' ]------------------
717 /media/hdb/1/
201 /media/hdb/10/
7349 /media/hdb/11/
1 /media/hdb/2/
1 /media/hdb/3/
1 /media/hdb/4/
1087 /media/hdb/5/
1087 /media/hdb/6/
1087 /media/hdb/7/
1860 /media/hdb/8/
299 /media/hdb/9/
232 /var/
120 /var/log/
748 /tmp/
14780 total
------------------------------------------------------------------------
I think, according to "du --help" and the manpage, the parameter "-x"
should exclude Network drives too...
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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