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I have an FTP Server where a large number of files/folders are stored.

I would like to see how much is stored in each of the folders (including it's subfolders). Is there a way to do this? I.e. get a listing of all folders and theirs sizes on the FTP Server.

Ideally on Linux, Windows also possible.

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The du utility will do what you want.

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I can only access the data via FTP on the Server, but "du only runs locally, so sorry, no, that does not do what I want in my case. – centic Sep 21 '12 at 5:44
Then you'll need a script that can recursively walk the tree, starting up an FTP session, cd'ing into a directory, doing an ls or dir, parsing the results to find any subdirectories, then repeating. – Nicole Hamilton Sep 22 '12 at 1:22
hmm, sure I can do that, but that's what I was trying to avoid, I thought there must be some application or tool which can do that without implementing it myself... – centic Sep 23 '12 at 16:45
I had a similar problem when I wanted to move one of my sites from a hosting service onto my own machine and I wanted to get the timestamps as well. If you're stuck with the FTP interface, you're stuck with just the commands and the behaviors they give you. You get a dir and an ls but they're both brain-dead and don't recurse. I ended up writing a script (but it's nowhere near publishable quality.) – Nicole Hamilton Sep 23 '12 at 16:59

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