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mbell · Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 11

Is there an easy way to use VDS 6 to scan a drive and create a list of all of the directory sizes (excluding sub-directories)? I've looked all over and haven't found a way to get the size of a directory. File sizes, yes. But nothing on getting the size of a directory.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Milton
(in HOT San Antonio, TX)

Garrett · Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:49 am Post subject:

You'll have to make a list of all the files in the directory and total up all the file sizes. Look at it this way; A directory itself has no size at all, but the files within it have size.

mbell · Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 11

OK, thanks. I'll give your suggestion a try. I also found a program in XP Service Pack 2 called DIRUSE. It can be used to create a text file which contains directory sizes in bytes, KB, or MB. However, it has problems separating the subject line of the log file that's created and the directory listings.

Thanks again,

Milton

Garrett · Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:21 pm Post subject:

I really don't think you'll even need that as VDS itself is more than capable of getting a list of files in a directory and getting file sizes for each file in that list.

Check out "LIST FILELIST" and "@file(,Z)

You basically just fill a list with all the files in a directory using the "LIST FILELIST" and then you loop through that list and use "@file(,Z)" to get the size of each file, all the while adding up the file sizes as you loop through the list. At the end of the loop, you'll have to the total size of all the files in that directory.

You could even do this for a directory and all of it's sub directories, but that would take a bit more work than just a single directory, but still, it is possible to do this and with relative ease using VDS.

DaveR · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:30 am Post subject:

Garrett · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:57 am Post subject:

mbell · Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 11

Thanks for the replies. I'm able to use DIRUSE.EXE to get the folder sizes. My main interest in knowing the folder sizes was to detect when users exceeded their folder size quotas. DIRUSE can be configured to create a log file which contains folders that exceed a designated size. I plan to use VDS to load the log and create a list of users who have gone over their quotas.

Thanks again,

Milton