That's a fair point. What we do when a filesystem gets full is email an
alert and include the output from:
du --time -ahx /mountpoint | sort -k1,1hr -k4 | expand | head -100
You can quickly see the biggest directories and files, and if you knew one
was a file (like a large log file), it might be an immediate target for
clearing space.
Example, if the directories had trailing /, it would look like this:
3.7G 2023-10-20 09:31 ./
417M 2023-09-27 11:50 ./logs/
413M 2022-09-24 06:25 ./img/
254M 2023-08-08 09:29 ./monthlies/
247M 2023-10-18 10:08 ./patching/
131M 2023-10-19 09:57 ./awlprobdds01.pcap
In this case, I'd probably move or delete the pcap file. I know that is
normally recognized as a file, but sometimes it isn't so clear and why a
trailing / for dirs would be nice.
Rusty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pádraig Brady" <p...@draigbrady.com>
To: "Rusty Duplessis" <ru...@bobpooch.com>; <coreutils@gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2023 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: du enhancement
On 20/10/2023 00:22, Rusty Duplessis wrote:
Would be nice to have an option to append a / to the end of directory
names, so that you can distinguish between a file and directory when
using -a. Something like -F option to ls.
It's a good suggestion.
I generally only use du with single files / dirs,
or otherwise I use a wrapper that makes dirs obvious (though coloring):
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/dutop
I.e. the default output from du -a is hard to parse.
thanks,
Pádraig
