Re: Calculate Directory Size

I suggest using an external tool - using PHP would probably be too slow esp. if you're hitting 1000+ users. (Plus, I think you would have to run a lot of clearstatcache()'s which may cause all sorts of problems)... If you do an ls or dir or similar then you could parse the output, however there must be a decent tool out there somewhere that runs nice and fast. Simon H <simon.hamilton@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:ABEOLCLBKCFMEMHDPKLMIEIKCJAA.simon.hamilton@ntlworld.com... > On advice, I've moved this from the Pear list. I have a > problem...hopefully someone can help, because I've no idea where > to even start! > > I have a user database, with a table called Users, and fields as so: > > (it would be cool if this would work on both Linux and Windows) > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > User DiskUsage (Mb) Quota (Mb) HomeDirectory > ------------------------------------------------------------- > jim 50 100 F:\users\jim \\ In Windows > > jim 50 100 /users/jim \\ In Linux > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The database wouldn't be shared between Windows and Linux, just 1 or the > other. > > What I would like to be able to do is, press a button on a php page, and > scan the (MySQL or ODBC through Pear DB) database, and for each user, > calculate the size of their HomeDirectory, and Update the DiskUsage in the > DB accordingly. > > I'm wondering tho how this would work with say 1000's of users each with > several hundred Mb's or even several Gb's each. The users will have > subfolders too, so the function would have to recurse the dirs, if > possible. > > Is this even possible with PHP? > > I appreciate any help I can get on this, because its waaaaaay beyond me > presently. > > Thanks > > Simon H >