Querying Bucket Properties

Function

You can use this command to query the basic properties of a bucket, including its default storage class, region, version ID, storage usage, bucket quota, whether it supports POSIX, and the number of objects in the bucket.

Command Line Structure

In Windows

obsutil stat obs://bucket [-acl] [-bf=xxx] [-config=xxx] [-e=xxx] [-i=xxx] [-k=xxx] [-t=xxx]

In Linux or macOS

./obsutil stat obs://bucket [-acl] [-bf=xxx] [-config=xxx] [-e=xxx] [-i=xxx] [-k=xxx] [-t=xxx]

Examples

Take the Windows OS as an example. Run the obsutil stat obs://bucket-test command to query the basic properties of bucket bucket-test.

obsutil stat obs://bucket-test

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Bucket:
  obs://bucket-test
StorageClass:
  standard
   
ObsVersion:
  3.0
BucketType:
  OBJECTObjectNumber:
  8005
Size:
  320076506
Quota:
  0

Parameter Description

Parameter	Optional or Mandatory	Description
bucket	Mandatory	The bucket name
acl	Optional	Queries the access control policies of the bucket while querying bucket properties.
bf	Optional (additional parameter)	The display format of the used bucket capacity (in bytes). Possible values are: human-readable raw NOTE: If this parameter is not configured, the display format of the used bucket capacity (in bytes) is determined by the humanReadableFormat parameter in the configuration file.
config	Optional (additional parameter)	The user-defined configuration file for executing the current command. To learn the parameters that can be configured in this file, see Configuration Parameters.
e	Optional (additional parameter)	The endpoint
i	Optional (additional parameter)	The user's AK
k	Optional (additional parameter)	The user's SK
t	Optional (additional parameter)	The user's security token

Response

Field	Description
Bucket	The bucket name
StorageClass	The default storage class of the bucket
Location	The region where the bucket resides
ObsVersion	The version of the bucket
BucketType	The type of the bucket. OBJECT indicates a bucket for object storage. POSIX indicates a bucket used as a parallel file system.
ObjectNumber	The number of objects in the bucket
Size	The storage usage of the bucket, in bytes
Quota	The bucket quota. Value 0 indicates that no upper limit is set for the bucket quota.
Acl	The access control policy of the bucket