Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-04-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Frederic Marchal wrote: > > Have a look at agedu: > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/agedu/ > > It computes disk usage like du. > > > > The produced HTML report can be viewed interactively like ncdu. That is pretty cool! I was previously unaware of this utility. Thanks for suggestin

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-04-11 Thread Frederic Marchal
Sorry for the very very late answer. That mail showed up as a new mail in my mail client! Frederic On Saturday 11 April 2015 11:19:02 Frederic Marchal wrote: > On Tuesday 03 March 2015 20:29:53 Richard Hector wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have an issue with a (client's) large (13T) filesystem, t

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-04-11 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Tuesday 03 March 2015 20:29:53 Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an issue with a (client's) large (13T) filesystem, that fills > up every now and then and nobody's quite sure what's doing it. > > I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. df > only gives the tota

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Richard Hector
On 04/03/15 09:30, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 03 Mar 2015, Jacek Politowski wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 08:29:53PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. With "idle" I/O scheduler class (set with ionice) does it still have a big per

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015, Jacek Politowski wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 08:29:53PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > >I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. > > With "idle" I/O scheduler class (set with ionice) does it still have > a big performance impact? This is basica

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:55:46 +, 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 al

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Jacek Politowski
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 11:09:30PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >Nice idea - unfortunately this is a file server, so the culprits are >likely to be remote, over smb. I guess I could track the smb traffic >and find which client it is ... So maybe filesystem quota could also be helpful? Even withou

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/15 23:17, Richard Hector wrote: > 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 tota

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Richard Hector
-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

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/15 23:01, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 03/03/2015 09:22 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> In this case, however, we know there's lots of space used, and >> it's supposed to be - what we don'

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Jacek Politowski
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 08:29:53PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. With "idle" I/O scheduler class (set with ionice) does it still have a big performance impact? -- Jacek Politowski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 03/03/2015 09:22 AM, Richard Hector wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In this case, however, we know there's lots of space used, and it's supposed to be - what we don't know is where in the tree that usage is changing. That requires running du multiple times, and if done t

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Darac Marjal
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 easi

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/15 21:09, 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 > outp

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-03 Thread Johann Spies
> 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. Re

Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-03-02 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have an issue with a (client's) large (13T) filesystem, that fills up every now and then and nobody's quite sure what's doing it. I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. df only gives the total for the filesystem, o