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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