I use ‘du -Lhs’ to check directory size. How long does it take for you to run that command? The only time I’ve ever run into a ‘du’ command taking a long time is when running it over the network to a slow-ass 2010-era system in California for a project I was doing at work with hundreds of terabytes of data and millions of files.
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last time i tried it took like 20 minutes, when it's just around 2GiB.
i thought it might be because the folder is on a hdd, so i tested moving the entire thing to an ssd and lo and behold, du only took 15 seconds there. too bad I don't have enough disk space on the ssd to keep the folder there, so i guess I'll just suffer. the files are probably fragmented over the entire drive or something, idk.
It depends on how your mounts are setup, but df might get you closer to what you need.
edit: This command shows the usage of mounted partitions. If your setup is on its own mount, that will probably get you the you need. If not, you might need to do some deductive work.
Ahh yep, that’ll do it. At least you figured out the issue!
Depending on if you put its volume in the image or a directory you need to look there. Check size or whichever it is. I believe for directory it’s du -h and for docker you could docker ps to see all.
Oh I see you say taking the directory size takes too long… how could that take more than 10 seconds…?