Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:52:31 +0800
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Silvan wrote:

>Before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd see if there's already something
>cooked up. What I want to do is look at my disks and gather statistics about
>what is eating the most space. Where the biggest files are, which
>directories are the largest, etc. I'm running out of room, and I'm sure I
>must have gigabytes of stupid junk laying around, but I'm not sure where I
>left all of it.
>
>I figure there's probably some find $dir -[syntax] to pick out files over some
>specified size, and I could do things with find|xargs du|sort|grep|gawk to
>pick out the heavyweight directories, but it would be nifty if there's
>already some handy dandy utility I haven't discovered that does this kind of
>thing already.
>
>

When I get desperate,as root I do things like this:
du --max-depth 2 -m | sort -n | sort

Dolphin:/# find var -type f -size +400000b | xargs ls -o
-rw-r----- 1 root 729716736 2004-01-04 06:14
var/local/KNOPPIX-3.2-Apr2003.iso
-rw------- 1 root 536870912 2003-05-02 03:51 var/swapfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 536870912 2003-11-03 17:16 var/swapfile2
Dolphin:/#

>Assuming such a thing doesn't already exist, does anyone else thing some kind
>of handy dandy disk analyzer/reporter flummy to compile and report statistics
>of this nature would be worth doing in a pretty way? This almost seems
>worthy of becoming a hack add-on to KDiskFree or something. (Yeah, like I
>have time for any more projects.)
>
>
>
It's not something you should ask users to wait while it's done, so it
should be done as a commandline thing that can be run as, say, a weekly
cronjob when nobody's using the computer.

The mon package can be used to warn you before you run out of space: I
suppose you could spark a run off with a mon alert (you would not _do_
the report under mon though).

It would be useful: years ago where I worked we used to get lists of
files we owned and were required to mark those we wanted to keep.

These days, disk is cheap in com[arison with time, and you need to keep
this in mind. It might be better to replace the drive, put the old one
in a USB enclosure so you can get your important bits back. However,
some will choose to spend (their own) time to manage their space.

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