the shell command du does not work as expected when run on an SMB share
I've used the shell command du to find the size of directories on our file servers for quite some time, e.g.
find . -type d -iname "*archive*" -not -empty -maxdepth 4 -exec du -sh {} > ~/Desktop/ThingsToArchive.txt ;
will find all nonempty folders with the word "archive" in them and give them to me in a text file with their total size listed. This helps me easily find where users have put files for me to archive, and allows me to get the big folders first.
Now that we are connecting to Windows servers over SMB versus Mac servers over AFP, du seems kind of broken. It only reports the size of the directory itself so everything seems to be 64K in size, or what have you.
Is there a way around this?
thanks
bash shell smb
asked Dec 20 '18 at 16:34
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I've used the shell command du to find the size of directories on our file servers for quite some time, e.g.
find . -type d -iname "*archive*" -not -empty -maxdepth 4 -exec du -sh {} > ~/Desktop/ThingsToArchive.txt ;
will find all nonempty folders with the word "archive" in them and give them to me in a text file with their total size listed. This helps me easily find where users have put files for me to archive, and allows me to get the big folders first.
Now that we are connecting to Windows servers over SMB versus Mac servers over AFP, du seems kind of broken. It only reports the size of the directory itself so everything seems to be 64K in size, or what have you.
Is there a way around this?
thanks
bash shell smb
asked Dec 20 '18 at 16:34
John McKenzie
11
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I've used the shell command du to find the size of directories on our file servers for quite some time, e.g.
find . -type d -iname "*archive*" -not -empty -maxdepth 4 -exec du -sh {} > ~/Desktop/ThingsToArchive.txt ;
will find all nonempty folders with the word "archive" in them and give them to me in a text file with their total size listed. This helps me easily find where users have put files for me to archive, and allows me to get the big folders first.
Now that we are connecting to Windows servers over SMB versus Mac servers over AFP, du seems kind of broken. It only reports the size of the directory itself so everything seems to be 64K in size, or what have you.
Is there a way around this?
thanks
bash shell smb
asked Dec 20 '18 at 16:34
John McKenzie
11
I've used the shell command du to find the size of directories on our file servers for quite some time, e.g.
find . -type d -iname "*archive*" -not -empty -maxdepth 4 -exec du -sh {} > ~/Desktop/ThingsToArchive.txt ;
will find all nonempty folders with the word "archive" in them and give them to me in a text file with their total size listed. This helps me easily find where users have put files for me to archive, and allows me to get the big folders first.
Now that we are connecting to Windows servers over SMB versus Mac servers over AFP, du seems kind of broken. It only reports the size of the directory itself so everything seems to be 64K in size, or what have you.
Is there a way around this?
thanks
bash shell smb
bash shell smb
asked Dec 20 '18 at 16:34
John McKenzie
11
asked Dec 20 '18 at 16:34
John McKenzie
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asked Dec 20 '18 at 16:34
John McKenzie
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asked Dec 20 '18 at 16:34
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