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, 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, of course. > > > > Currently I'm running find occasionally, with fprintf to record > > filename, mtime and size, then analysing it (by importing it into > > postgres, fwiw) for new large files - but ideally I'd like to zero in > > by frequently checking sizes of whole directories. Is there any way to > > do that, perhaps by triggering off write calls, cheaply? > > > > I know that inotify/incron have their limitations when working with > > deep directory structures; I'd be interested to know of anything that > > can trigger on any writes to a particular filesystem. > > > > If I could start again, I'd put LVM on the array and use multiple LVs > > to allow du to work at lower levels, but that's not really practical > > at this stage. > > > > Any tips? > > 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. > > But, in addition, you can view the HTML report from another machine (using > the agedu webserver) or on another computer if you copy the agedu.dat file > to another computer and start the web server there. > > As the report distinguishes new from old files, you can spot were the most > recently written big files are. > > Frederic -- 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/2256452.aofhqvr...@fmarchal.edpnet.be
