Re: Directory Size

Are you sure it hangs? It might take a long time to get occupied size. This also depends on the filesystem used, I heard reserfs is best at this. Chris Blake wrote:

Greetings learned PHP(eople); Is there a way to calculate the size of directory in PHP ? I searched php.net and only found ways of opening directories and reading file sizes.... One suggestion on there was to do the following : $mstrng = shell_exec('du -sc /backup/'); echo '<pre>' . $mstrng . '<pre>'; When I do that my browser hangs endlessly....mind you, it also hangs when I run du -sc from the command line... Any pointers muchly appreciated...