Re: Disk usage analysis
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:52:38AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:08:18 -0700, Christopher Chambers ccha...@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 waay 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 [ ... ] -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disk usage analysis
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 waay 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! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disk usage analysis
On 22 apr 2009, at 10:01, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disk usage analysis
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 +--+ Follow me if you dare... http://twitter.com/mikelking +--+ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disk usage analysis
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 -- Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disk usage analysis
On Apr 22, 2009, at 3:05 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Wed 2009-04-22 10:46:14 UTC-0400, Mikel King (mikel.k...@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 When we ran it initially we used .htaccess, then rolled it into a php app. m ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disk usage analysis
On Apr 22, 2009, at 3:13 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Thu 2009-04-23 05:05:25 UTC+1000, andrew clarke (m...@ozzmosis.com) wrote: durep seems to have no concept of security :-) So how did you go about restricting unwanted people from viewing its output? I'm referring to the CGI version of durep here, of course. We didn't run the CGI version. Only used it as a scheduled task, to generate the report once or twice per day. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disk usage analysis
On Thu 2009-04-23 05:05:25 UTC+1000, andrew clarke (m...@ozzmosis.com) wrote: durep seems to have no concept of security :-) So how did you go about restricting unwanted people from viewing its output? I'm referring to the CGI version of durep here, of course. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disk usage analysis
On Wed 2009-04-22 10:46:14 UTC-0400, Mikel King (mikel.k...@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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Disk usage analysis
Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and folders are taking up the most space? -- Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Disk usage analysis
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disk usage analysis
Christopher Chambers wrote: Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and folders are taking up the most space? du -hd 1 | sort -n http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=duapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disk usage analysis
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote:
Christopher Chambers wrote:
Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and
folders are taking up the most space?
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
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Re: Disk usage analysis
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:08:18 -0700, Christopher Chambers ccha...@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. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
