[HADOOP-4861] Add disk usage with human-readable size (-duh)

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed
• Release Note: Output of hadoop fs -dus changed to be consistent with hadoop fs -du and with Linux du. Users who previously parsed this output should update their scripts. New feature hadoop fs -du -h may be used for human readable output.
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
• Created: 12/Dec/08 21:10
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 20:34
• Resolved: 27/May/09 10:51

Description

I think it'd be super useful to have a form of "hadoop dfs -du" that showed the sizes in human-readable format, as in the standard command "du -h".

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-6375 Update documentation for FsShell du command