[Dspace-general] gathering statistics

[Dorothea Salo]

2009/9/17 Kelley Weber <kelley.weber at washburn.edu>:
> One of the new ACRL statistics we need to gather for our library
> digitization archives is the size of the overall collection(s).  I couldn't
> seem to find this statistic readily available without going to each item
> record, noting the file size, adding them all up, and converting to Mb
> (because many are in Kb). Surely, there's an easier way and I just missed it
> . . . anybody?

When I had to work this out for the same reason last year, I gave ARL
the size of the assetstore directory on the server. If I'd wanted to
be persnickety, I'd have thrown in the size of the database as well,
but that probably doesn't amount to much more than a rounding error.

The "du" command is what to start with, but I don't recall offhand
what flags to use. "man du" should help sort it out.

Dorothea

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