Windows – How to find a directory disk usage over network? (Windows)

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I have an external disk that is connected to a LAN network.
I want to find the disk usage of a directory on the disk from a script. I looked at power shell and SysInternals tools but couldn't find any solution. Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Powershell makes it possible in the following way:

Size in MB

"Folder use {0:0,0.00} MB" -f (((Get-ChildItem -R C:\TEMP | measure-object length -Sum ).Sum / 1MB)

Size in GB

"Folder use {0:0,0.00} MB" -f (((Get-ChildItem -R C:\TEMP | measure-object length -Sum ).Sum / 1GB)

Maybe in TB

"Folder use {0:0,0.00} MB" -f (((Get-ChildItem -R C:\TEMP | measure-object length -Sum ).Sum / 1TB)

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I've had success with Sysinternals Process Explorer. With this, you can search to find what process(es) have a file open, and you can use it to close the handle(s) if you want. Of course, it is safer to close the whole process. Exercise caution and judgement.

To find a specific file, use the menu option Find->Find Handle or DLL... Type in part of the path to the file. The list of processes will appear below.

If you prefer command line, Sysinternals suite includes command line tool Handle, that lists open handles.

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c:\Program Files\SysinternalsSuite>handle.exe |findstr /i "e:\" (finds all files opened from drive e:\"
c:\Program Files\SysinternalsSuite>handle.exe |findstr /i "file-or-path-in-question"

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A little known one is

getmac

It shows the MAC address(es) of your network adapter(s).

Screenshot of running getmac from a Windows commandline window.

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