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Hello,
I am currently writing a script and have 2 questons regarding folders:
Is it possible to get the size of a folder via API (I mean complete size of all files and this folder)
And is there an elegant way to just check if an folder exists
(Currently I make an try catch arround a GET request, but this looks nasty to me)
Best regards, Marius
Jeffey1
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December 1st, 2014 20:00
Hi Mwigger,
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You can do so by selecting "Move" under ACTIONS along the upper-right. Then search for and select: "Isilon" which would be the most relevant for this question.
mattashton1
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December 2nd, 2014 12:00
Hi Mwigger,
Have you fooled around with the latest API (7.2)?
For a directory /ifs/data/matt:
ma-visi-72-1# curl -u root:a -k 'https://191.1.2.3:8080/namespace/ifs/data/matt?detail=size'
{"children":[{
"name" : "thisisifsdatamatt.txt",
"size" : 29
}
,{
"name" : "foo",
"size" : 58
}
ma-visi-72-1#
This gives you the size of the files contained within. Though it looks like you'll have to programmatically sum them.
I haven't seen an elegant way of determining if a folder exists...
Cheers,
Matt
bhalilov1
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December 2nd, 2014 14:00
If you need the size of the directory and all of it's content ( subdirectories included) you can query the sqlite3 database that FSanalize job creates. I'm not sure if you need InsightIQ to be able to schedule the FSanalyze jobs :
ptc-3# sqlite3 /ifs/.ifsvar/modules/fsa/pub/latest/results.db 'select system_squash_map.path , disk_usage.phys_size_sum /1024 from system_squash_map join disk_usage on system_squash_map.lin = disk_usage.lin where system_squash_map.path like "%big%" ;'
dm/bigdir|486389
dm/samebigdir|486341
dm/big1|486341
dm/verybig|486365
MWigger
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December 10th, 2014 01:00
Hello,
the answer of mattashon seems to ge the right direction, the only thing missing is some recursive function I did not find yet.
The answer from bhalilov@un is nice as well, but I search for a clientsside solution without ssh access
So, did anyone find an legant way to do so via api or via python backend?
Best regards,
Marius