Querying Bucket Properties

Function

You can use this command to query the basic properties of a bucket, including its region, version ID, storage usage, bucket quota, AZ, 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]

In Linux or macOS

./obsutil stat obs://bucket [-acl] [-bf=xxx] [-config=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

Bucket:
  obs://bucket-test
Location:
   your-location
ObsVersion:
  3.0
FSStatus:
  disabled
AvailableZone:
  multi-az
ObjectNumber:
  8005
Size:
  320076506
Quota:
  0

Parameter Description

Parameter	Optional or Mandatory	Description
bucket	Mandatory	Bucket name
acl	Optional	Queries the access control policies of the bucket while querying bucket properties.
bf	Optional (additional parameter)	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)	User-defined configuration file for executing a command. For details about parameters that can be configured, see Parameter Description.

Response

Field	Description
Bucket	Bucket name
Location	Region where the bucket resides
ObsVersion	Version of the bucket
BucketType	Type of a bucket. OBJECT indicates a bucket for object storage. POSIX indicates a bucket used as a parallel file system.
AvailableZone	AZ where the bucket is located
ObjectNumber	Number of objects in the bucket
Size	Storage usage of the bucket, in bytes
Quota	Bucket quota. Value 0 indicates that no upper limit is set for the bucket quota.
Acl	Access control policy of the bucket