Using du.exe to calculate disk usage on a Microsoft cluster server

Tue Jul 4 00:10:00 GMT 2006

Will Beldman wrote:
>> > In reply to:
> >> On 03 July 2006 14:50, Will Beldman wrote:
> >>
> >> I need to determine disk usage for each directory on a Microsoft 
> cluster
> >> server. As a linux junkie, du is *the* tool for automating this kind of
> >> stuff so I installed cygwin, mapped some drives and tried to schedule
> >> the utility to run at night. However, I get a lot of errors thrown back
> >> such as:
> >> 1. "No such file or directory" - Which tends to appear on weird
> >> filenames (like with spaces or ' or some other character) or when I
> >> don't have permission to access the drive (but that's something I 
> can fix)
>> >Without seeing your script and knowing the dir names in question, it's 
> hard
> > to say, but the obvious bet would be some kind of shell 
> quoting/escaping bug
> > in the way you invoke 'du'.
> Right, I was sure of this. But how would I make du properly escape? I'm 
> trying to run the utility on S:/*. I don't have a defined list of 
> directories to run against.

Use POSIX paths (i.e. /cygdrive/s). Here I think you've found an application
for 'find'. How about something like:
find /cygdrive/s -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 du
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