On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:43 am, David Bishop wrote: > I have a user that really like to create files. Then, they don't clean > them up. We have already put a quota* on them, but unfortunetly, their > directory is so large and convaluted, that they can't even figure out where > all the disk space has gone. Is there a sane way to generate a report > showing the disk usage from a certain point on down, sorted by size? Heres > kinda what I mean: for a standard user, I would just run > 'du /u/foo | sort -n | tail -20', and tell them to clean up whatever is > there. However, I've let a du | sort -n run on this directory for over four > hours, before giving up in disgust. It is almost 100Gigs of files, with at > least four or five directories that have 20K to 30K+ files each (plus > hundreds of other subdirs). *And*, it's on a filer, so there are .snapshot > directories that du thinks it has to plow through, quintupling the amount > of work. I'd also like to make this into a weekly report, so that they > can make it part of their Friday routine (let's go delete 10 gigs of data! > Woohoo!). > > Ideas? Other than killing them, of course, no matter how tempting that > is... > > *100Gigs!
I'd play with the --max-depth settings on du, this will allow you to limit the output a bit, however it will still have to run over the entire directory tree to count it. Failing that, if you suspect it's some really big files taking up the room then a find with -size +1000k or similar might be your friend. t -- GPG : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key
