Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:06:45PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: >> Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:33:06PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: >> >> >> >> Is there a way to let du -h only print the size of a directory? >> >> Sorry I was not clear here, I want to check more then _one_ directory, >> at once: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo du -sh $(pwd) /etc > 740M /home/n6tadam > 23M /etc > > If you wanted the total of both those directories together: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo du -csh $(pwd) /etc > 740M /home/n6tadam > 23M /etc > 763M total > >> like /home/oswald but du -sh returns a error that /home/oswald/pan/cache >> is not readable ( something about input-output error. > > I'm not going to guess this error. If it is "something like", then my initial > guess is that your drive is screwed. > >> Sure it is :-) But since du returns the above error it does not >> finish. du -h /the_directory works but it prints then all files. of >> course I could put the output into a file and then go trough that... > > You could do, but that would be pointless, since du can do it for you. Those > I/O errors are not good. What you got in /var/log/messages? Anything to > support them? Sorry I can't be any more specific than that, but you haven't > supplied the error message.
Well the other poster got me worried :-) I just run fsck.ext2 on the drive, and the problem is solved now :-) Thanks for your input :-) > > -- Thomas Adam > -- > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- LinuxUser aka Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- registered-linux-user # 134.818 at http://counter.li.org The box said Windows, NT or better, so I installed Linux :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
