www.LinuxHowtos.org howtos, tips&tricks and tutorials for linux

from small one page howto to huge articles all in one place

Other .linuxhowtos.org sites:toolsntoys.linuxhowtos.org
gentoo.linuxhowtos.org

poll results

Last additions:

using iotop to find disk usage hogs

words:

887

views:

20176

userrating:

average rating: 3.4 (203 votes) (1=very good 6=terrible)

May 25th. 2007:

Words

486

Views

35955

why adblockers are bad

Workaround and fixes for the current Core Dump Handling vulnerability affected kernels

words:

161

views:

20952

userrating:

average rating: 1.0 (50 votes) (1=very good 6=terrible)

April, 26th. 2006:

Words

Views

16025

New subdomain: toolsntoys.linuxhowtos.org

You are here: manpages

mdu

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 28Feb10
Index Return to Main Contents

Name

mdu - display the amount of space occupied by an MSDOS directory

Note of warning

This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete. See the end of this man page for details.

Description

Mdu is used to list the space occupied by a directory, its subdirectories and its files. It is similar to the du command on Unix. The unit used are clusters. Use the minfo command to find out the cluster size.

mdu [-a] [ msdosfiles ... ]

a: All files. List also the space occupied for individual files.
s: Only list the total space, don't give details for each subdirectory.

Viewing the texi doc

This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation. However, this process is only approximative, and some items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in this translation process. Indeed, these items have no appropriate representation in the manpage format. Moreover, not all information has been translated into the manpage version. Thus I strongly advise you to use the original texinfo doc. See the end of this manpage for instructions how to view the texinfo doc.

*

To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the following commands:

    ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi

*

To generate a html copy, run:

    ./configure; make html

A premade html can be found at Infinityhttp://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/manual/mtools.htmlIntegral

*

To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), run:

    ./configure; make info

The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html. Indeed, in the info version certain examples are difficult to read due to the quoting conventions used in info.