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<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a><br>
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<a name="NAME"></a><h2>NAME</h2><p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3>xfs_estimate - estimate the space that an XFS filesystem will take</font></p>
<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2>SYNOPSIS</h2><p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3><B>xfs_estimate</B></font> <font size=3>[</font> <font size=3><B>-h?</B></font> <font size=3>] [</font> <font size=3><B>-b</B></font> <font size=3>blocksize ] [</font> <font size=3><B>-i</B></font> <font size=3>logsize ] [</font> <font size=3><B>-e</B></font> <font size=3>logsize ] [</font> <font size=3><B>-v</B></font> <font size=3>] directory ...</font></p>
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3>For each</font> <font size=3><I>directory</I></font> <font size=3>argument,</font> <font size=3><I>xfs_estimate</I></font> <font size=3>estimates the space that directory would take if it were copied to an XFS filesystem.</font> <font size=3><I>xfs_estimate</I></font> <font size=3>does not cross mount points. The following definitions are used:</font>
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<p><font size=3>KB = *1024</font></p>
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<p><font size=3>MB = *1024*1024</font></p>
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<p><font size=3>GB = *1024*1024*1024</font></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3>The</font> <font size=3><I>xfs_estimate</I></font> <font size=3>options are:</font>
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<p><font size=3><B>-b</B></font> <font size=3><I>blocksize</I></font></p>
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<p><font size=3>Use</font> <font size=3><I>blocksize</I></font> <font size=3>instead of the default blocksize of 4096 bytes. The modifier</font> <font size=3><B>k</B></font> <font size=3>can be used after the number to indicate multiplication by 1024. For example,</font></p>
<p><span style=" text-indent: 7%;"></span><font size=3><EM>xfs_estimate &shy;b 64k /</EM></font></p>
<p><font size=3>requests an estimate of the space required by the directory / on an XFS filesystem using a blocksize of 64K (65536) bytes.</font></p>
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<p><font size=3><B>-v</B></font></p>
<p><font size=3><B>-h</B></font></p>
<p><font size=3><B>-?</B></font></p>
<p><font size=3><B>-i, -e</B></font> <font size=3><I>logsize</I></font></p>
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<p><font size=3>Display more information, formatted.</font></p>
<p><font size=3>Display usage message.</font></p>
<p><font size=3>Display usage message.</font></p>
<p><font size=3>Use</font> <font size=3><I>logsize</I></font> <font size=3>instead of the default log size of 10 MB.</font> <font size=3><B>-i</B></font> <font size=3>refers to an internal log, while</font> <font size=3><B>-e</B></font> <font size=3>refers to an external log. The modifiers</font> <font size=3><B>k</B></font> <font size=3>or</font> <font size=3><B>m</B></font> <font size=3>can be used after the number to indicate multiplication by 1024 or 1048576, respectively.</font></p>
<p><font size=3>For example,</font></p>
<p><span style=" text-indent: 7%;"></span><font size=3><EM>xfs_estimate &shy;i 1m /</EM></font></p>
<p><font size=3>requests an estimate of the space required by the directory / on an XFS filesystem using an internal log of 1 megabyte.</font></p>
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<a name="EXAMPLES"></a><h2>EXAMPLES</h2>
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<p><font size=3>%</font> <font size=3><EM>xfs_estimate &shy;e 10m /var/tmp</EM></font> <font size=3><I>/var/tmp will take about 4.2 megabytes<br>
<span style=" text-indent: 3%;"></span>with the external log using 2560 blocks or about 10.0 megabytes</I></font></p>
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<p><font size=3><I>%</I></font> <font size=3><EM>xfs_estimate &shy;v &shy;e 10m /var/tmp</EM></font> <font size=3><I>directory bsize blocks megabytes<br>
/var/tmp 4096 792 4.0MB 10485760</I></font></p>
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<p><font size=3><I>logsize</I></font></p>
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<p><font size=3><I>%</I></font> <font size=3><EM>xfs_estimate &shy;v /var/tmp</EM></font> <font size=3><I>directory bsize blocks megabytes<br>
/var/tmp 4096 3352 14.0MB 10485760</I></font></p>
<p><font size=3><I>%</I></font> <font size=3><EM>xfs_estimate /var/tmp</EM></font> <font size=3><I>/var/tmp will take about 14.0 megabytes</I></font></p>
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<p><font size=3><I>logsize</I></font></p>
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