Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 16:16:14 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers? Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK2jArXPbkfOPCqCXJ_BG-XcGtUrv_wO88AWUR_Op0O-8A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E1367E7.3050205@rawbw.com> References: <4E1367E7.3050205@rawbw.com>
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> > I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and it's > hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge index > file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was the bug in KDE > writing some huge index somewhere in ~/.kde4. > > Is there a tool slowly indexing the file system and showing where exactly > did the sudden growth of consumed space occur? > > I know about du(1) but I am looking for some program that can detect the > dynamics and pinpoint the offending files. > A lot of the monitoring applications can do this such as zabbix and opennms, but they don't necessarily monitor file size on every file so I don't know how efficient it would be if it's not integrated into kqueue. One of the security applications such as samhain may be able to do a better job of it. -- Adam Vande More
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