list directory size in terminal for mounted cifs

[twinturbotom]

I mounted an apple time capsule in /etc/fstab as cifs type to /media/time_capsule. I now want to look at directory file sizes to help me clean out the drive.

I usually use the command below to list human readable sizes for files and directories:

ls -lh

but all the directories show up with 0 size! Not sure why / how to let me view directory size in terminal with ls. Update an index?

thanks.

[thermion]

Try some of these commands while in /media/time_capsule:

df -h

or

du -hs *

[prodigy_]

Find files and sort by file size:

find /media/time_capsule -depth -type f -exec stat -c "%s %n" {} \;|sort -rn|more

Find directories and sort by disk usage:

du /media/time_capsule|sort -rn|more

[twinturbotom]

du and find with sort works great, thanks.
I still don't understand why ls -l does this fir local directories and not for my mount.

[thermion]

This depends on the cifs implementation on the server. Some older versions of smbd produce this kind of behaviour when running ls or certain other tools.