[Nagiosplug-help] Directory Size

[Andreas Ericsson]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> barry.maclean wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for a script that I can monitor the size of a directory.
>>
> 
> Are you looking for the number of attached inodes or just size in bytes? 
> Each directory on an ext3 filesystem can contain a maximum of 32768 
> files. For the size in bytes you should go with the du option.
> du -bsh should give you decent output even on mounted filesystems.

network mounted filesystems, that is...

> Be warned though that the info is usually cached if you run the check too 
> often, and will most likely take quite a while to run on large directories.
> 



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