On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:55:46 +0000, 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.
Can do something similar with du and xdu. The output of du can diverted to a file, running overnight, and then afterward, xdu can take it as input ad display it nicely. -- hendrik -- 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/md54tj$ib1$2...@ger.gmane.org
