Faster way to find the size of a huge directory?
2007-12-24 20:39:00
I'm faced with a task of migrating data from one file server to another,
but I have to identify which directories to migrate, given their
size. Basically I'm looking for a way to run through a 600gig directory
structure, and figure out which directories should be moved; du takes
forever. Is there a faster way to look through a huge directory tree, and
say, list all directories that are two or three gigs or more? I can
script it, but I don't want to use du since that will take a long
time. Is there a faster utility? Would gnu find/du be a much faster pair
to use?
thanks for any help
robert
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