-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/15 22:55, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:09:41AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >> >> >> I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. >> df only gives the total for the filesystem, of course. >> >> Try ncdu. It also takes some time to finish calculating, but the >> output is easier to handle and you can drill down to lower >> directories without losing the other data. > > Also, if it's useful to you, you can separate out the gathering > and displaying tasks with ncdu. So you could, for example, run > "ionice -c3 ncdu -o ~/ncdu-output" late at night (or when the > system is relatively quiet) and then, in the morning run "ncdu -f > ~/ncdu-output" to examine the file that was produced by the > overnight run. > I didn't spot that option ... because it isn't in the manpage, and is unknown to the binary :-) Is it in a newer version ... ah, I see it's in 1.9; wheezy has 1.8.
If that works, it could indeed be a very useful tool, thanks. Richard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJU9YpRAAoJELSi8I/scBaNOycIAKCQ0fBFxN4PPD8fwgZoutCW MyKoNvVor0RQvg6hCAVIrkkX3yvGrZ0HHfm2lvmgZYiWcPmLM9DxOY/a7nE6Gvtw vTuv4zKUO1nnH3FSvxqEj5bzH35mI5IAYWpfaT0QEQ/wkAvgWigv+BsXf6zd3nyT fmYxrwW+244gBLQw2xdyAcQDDDtOo8gNRMxlwcODycZIZJCtUEHD9wuTNr1G2wAJ JNmAfnPn1V8bc8GU24fUEZqNgfDxwwfYkG/MS0P1FKSOSpjLNsHPrMk2AhvYfEAS VBmsKxCNzG10agRJtu41P9pWSPIOvPr/9bge3/mOY+HCJ+sa1MjYvXVdaLJ+mZg= =lE0s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54f58a52.5070...@walnut.gen.nz