Re: File sizes on remote server

[Fred Lindberg]

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 09:46:51 -0500, Paul DuBois wrote:

>% cd /dir/containing/your/database          (cd to your database dir)
>% pwd                                       (to verify the location)
>% ls -l                                     (list sizes of each file)
>% du                                        (list total db size)

And make sure they change you only for the real size on disk (du) as
opposed to the file size reported by ls. Don't know about MySQL tables,
but in general files under unix can have very large holes of zeros. A
file can be 618 MB, but only use 12 MB of disk space!


-Sincerely, Fred

(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)