Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and
folders are taking up the most space?
Disk usage analysis by Robert Huff on
2009-04-22T03:24:51+00:00
Christopher Chambers writes:
> Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which
> files and folders are taking up the most space?
If this isn't a FAQ, then search the mailing list archives.
This question, or something leading to it like "out of disk space",
comes up regularly.
Robert Huff
Re: Disk usage analysis by Adam Vande More on
2009-04-22T03:39:49+00:00
Christopher Chambers wrote:
> Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and
> folders are taking up the most space?
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du -hd 1 | sort -n
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=du&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html
Re: Disk usage analysis by Tim Judd on
2009-04-22T03:58:44+00:00
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote:
> Christopher Chambers wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and
>> folders are taking up the most space?
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> du -hd 1 | sort -n
du -kd 1 | sort -rn
Shows in ENV{BLOCKSIZE} the biggest directories first. Bound to be / always
in this situation. :D
Re: Disk usage analysis by Polytropon on
2009-04-22T05:53:14+00:00
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:08:18 -0700, Christopher Chambers <cchamb0@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
> Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and
> folders are taking up the most space?
See "man du". Just for terminology: In UNIX (so in FreeBSD), there
are no folders. Folders are made of paper and reside in a cabinet. :-)
These are called directories.
You don't call files "sheets of paper" either, do you? :-)
For a GUI solution, check out file browsers. Most of them have the
ability to calculate the disk space occupation of a certain
directory or subtree. For example, in the Midnight Commander,
use PF9, Command, Show directory sizes.
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
Re: Disk usage analysis by Gary Kline on
2009-04-22T06:31:54+00:00
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:52:38AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:08:18 -0700, Christopher Chambers <cchamb0@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and
> > folders are taking up the most space?
>
> See "man du". Just for terminology: In UNIX (so in FreeBSD), there
> are no folders. Folders are made of paper and reside in a cabinet. :-)
>
> These are called directories.
>
> You don't call files "sheets of paper" either, do you? :-)
YES!! I'm probably too up-tight about the use of "folder",
but it just seems like waaaaaay too much stupiding-down of the
std Unix terminology. ([I thought I was the only one]. And yes,
there are things of greater gravitas to be ticked off about!)
gary
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Re: Disk usage analysis by Wojciech Puchar on
2009-04-22T08:03:04+00:00
>>
>> These are called directories.
>>
>> You don't call files "sheets of paper" either, do you? :-)
>
> YES!! I'm probably too up-tight about the use of "folder",
> but it just seems like waaaaaay too much stupiding-down of the
> std Unix terminology. ([I thought I was the only one]. And yes,
> there are things of greater gravitas to be ticked off about!)
>
it's just stupid to pursue windoze/maclame naming where names are ALREADY
present!
Re: Disk usage analysis by Peter Boosten on
2009-04-22T08:23:34+00:00
On 22 apr 2009, at 10:01, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
>
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>>>
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> it's just stupid to pursue windoze/maclame naming
It's just stupid to start another flame war about the superiority of
one or another OS.
Peter
>
Re: Disk usage analysis by Jerry McAllister on
2009-04-22T14:42:26+00:00
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:08:18PM -0700, Christopher Chambers wrote:
> Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and
> folders are taking up the most space?
Check out the du(1) command.
Go in to a file system and type du -sk * or maybe du -sh *
(I prefer the former because then all numbers have the same value)
Once you determine some directory that seems out of line, go in to that
directory and do it again.
////jerry
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Re: Disk usage analysis by Mikel King on
2009-04-22T14:49:53+00:00
On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Christopher Chambers writes:
>
>> Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which
>> files and folders are taking up the most space?
>
> If this isn't a FAQ, then search the mailing list archives.
> This question, or something leading to it like "out of disk space",
> comes up regularly.
>
>
> Robert Huff
I used to run durep on my shared servers. The package seems a bit out
of date and I have often considered adopting it as a pet project to
rewrite/update, but time, time and time always seem to be an issue.
You can read more about the application. It generates a comprehensive
report that can be automatically emailed, or viewed via the web.
http://www.hibernaculum.net/durep/
Cheers,
Mikel King
CEO, Olivent Technologies
Senior Editor, Daemon News
Columnist, BSD Magazine
6 Alpine Court
Medford, NY 11763
http://www.olivent.com
http://www.daemonnews.org
http://www.bsdmag.org
skype: mikel.king
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Re: Disk usage analysis by andrew clarke on
2009-04-22T19:32:48+00:00
On Wed 2009-04-22 10:46:14 UTC-0400, Mikel King (mikel.king@olivent.com) wrote:
> I used to run durep on my shared servers.
durep seems to have no concept of security :-) So how did you go about
restricting unwanted people from viewing its output?
Regards
Andrew