-----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 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.
Oh, whoops. I forgot - this machine is running lenny. Lenny doesn't have libtinfo5 (which appears to replace ncurses), so I'll need to muck around quite a bit to get ncdu to build :-( Richard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJU9Y9UAAoJELSi8I/scBaNe0oH/jE6l1ZAIjbOOuQYWm7Rw2tP SoVlgTD+65aqrigD8oSt+a+S07eqo1r+qd9daUfmCPJxQHNsJXdVp1gwk3pnz/vS YwrJ9NyE8YV/BfusJqoEKg54n35jTSLxCfheb1UsubRDUHO96glVm29iyCFry7Xz ob7QNxx2C473JYO+6k8MT+TGkiBdGxu6qt/aDLT4cx8SnAJfGcf7khAAvwc+2efh 1PAXcIXp1cmoKmiXBx65iBYIUQ6TqGsrHfuMmF9gPM5w9sjFd3Nn0Uq2XkOrFBpr X7Gz3HMKTwTvTAVAhlyIfQ+/QyrpBIuUqwT1QL2fhUfhq2R4g1AWy9Dhf6/2aIg= =T2BK -----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/54f58f54.4090...@walnut.gen.nz
