[clug] Disk vs file size

[Brett Worth]

On 8/8/19 5:12 pm, Andrew Janke via linux wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Let's say I have a filesystem that has a blocksize of 1Mb. Yes, you
> read that right.   And I happened to know that there are a lot of very
> small files in there.
>
> Is there an each way to report how much disk space this is costing me?
> All I can think of is using du or ls across the thing and then back
> calculating.  Also, I don't think I have df access.

How about:

    $ find . -type f -ls | awk ' { sum+=$2; } END {print sum*1024*1024; } '

The second column of the -ls output  is the block count so the multiplier needs to match
your block size.

Brett

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