Anything faster than 'du' ?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:
>Is there a faster way to determine the size of a deep directory of files 
>rather than using 'du'?  It (du) is really painful if there are lots of 
>files or the medium is slow like USB?

Anything that has to scan an entire directory structure, and stat()
all the entries to get the sizes is going to take a fair amount
of time.  I haven't looked at the code for ``du'', but I would
have to guess that it's pretty lean.

Bill
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