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Date:      Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:31:27 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <Lowell@Be-Well.Ilk.Org>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers?
Message-ID:  <44r564jr5s.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
In-Reply-To: <4E1367E7.3050205@rawbw.com> (yuri@rawbw.com's message of "Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:37:11 -0700")
References:  <4E1367E7.3050205@rawbw.com>

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Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> writes:

> 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 quick-and-rough approach that I sometimes use is to look at the
incremental backups...



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