Is there a way to sum up the disk usage of a certain directory while in ftp?
I was trying to create a script that will check what is the disk usage of the current directory and prints out the free space for the home directory.
Example:
ftp> cd /home/directory/
drw-rw-rw- 1 user group 0 Nov 16 /directory
drw-rw-rw- 1 user group 0 Nov 16 next/directory
drw-rw-rw- 1 user group 0 Nov 16 next/next/directory
For some reason, I can't see any size for directories. But inside them were files that I need to check the usage, so I have to get something like this:
total disk usage for /home/directory = "some count"
total disk usage for /next/directory = "some count"
total disk usage for /../directory = "some count"
Best Answer
I suggest you to use curlftpfs to mount your FTP repository on your filesystem. Then use the traditional
du -shc .
command in the folder you want to know the disk usage.