Re: [Discuss] disk space analysis tools

2011-10-11 Thread Ian Stokes-Rees
And a few more: multi-platform GUI-based: jDiskReport for a java-based disk analyzer. I've also written my own tool for doing this (single Python script): https://github.com/ijstokes/duscan This had the advantage of being runnable from a cron job and the results were always available to me

Re: [Discuss] disk space analysis tools

2011-10-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
This might be useful for me here. essentially, our NAS system is only at about 25%, but our backup server is the one that I need to keep an eye on. However, now that we are now owned by a cloud company (eg. IBM) maybe we will migrate to the cloud :-) On 10/11/2011 02:08 PM, Ian Stokes-Rees

[Discuss] disk space analysis tools

2011-10-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
Since my background is a software engineer not a system administrator, I have generally used DU to manage my own disk space, or possibly to look at disk space usage on the BLU servers. But, recently I'm seeing significant increase in my work's backup server (a WD MyBook). While du works fine

Re: [Discuss] disk space analysis tools

2011-10-07 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 10/07/2011 11:47 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Since my background is a software engineer not a system administrator, I have generally used DU to manage my own disk space, or possibly to look at disk space usage on the BLU servers. But, recently I'm seeing significant increase in my work's backup

Re: [Discuss] disk space analysis tools

2011-10-07 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 10/07/2011 11:51 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote: Ever tried filelight? It's a pretty cool visualization of disk usage. There's a gnome-equivalent, I can't think of the name... David Miller knew the gnome version :-) On 10/07/2011 11:50 AM, David Miller wrote: Have a look at Baobab. Its a

Re: [Discuss] disk space analysis tools

2011-10-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 10/07/2011 11:50 AM, David Miller wrote: On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@gapps.blu.org mailto:g...@gapps.blu.org wrote: Since my background is a software engineer not a system administrator, I have generally used DU to manage my own disk space, or possibly to

Re: [Discuss] disk space analysis tools

2011-10-07 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:47:07AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: So, what I am looking for is either some decent tools I can use that are less time consuming than looking at du output. This article lists 6 tools in the Baobab, Filelight, etc, family:

Re: [Discuss] disk space analysis tools

2011-10-07 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 10/07/2011 11:51 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote: There's also 'agedu'. From the man page: agedu - correlate disk usage with last-access times to identify large and disused data This is a cool one: ncdu It's like filelight, but ncurses-based :-) I love ncurses programs. Matt

Re: [Discuss] disk space analysis tools

2011-10-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/07/2011 11:51 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote: Ever tried filelight? It's a pretty cool visualization of disk usage. There's a gnome-equivalent, I can't think of the name... xdiskusage? DR ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org