Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:31:07 +0400 From: Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers? Message-ID: <20110707203107.GD5425@external.screwed.box> In-Reply-To: <4E1367E7.3050205@rawbw.com> References: <4E1367E7.3050205@rawbw.com>
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God love is hard to find. You got lucky freebsd-questions! 2011/07/05 12:37:11 -0700 Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> => To FreeBSD Questions : Y> I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and Y> it's hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge I think you can create a file system snapshots periodically and compare states thereafter at the any moment you wish... Y> index file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was the Y> bug in KDE writing some huge index somewhere in ~/.kde4. Y> Y> Is there a tool slowly indexing the file system and showing where Y> exactly did the sudden growth of consumed space occur? Y> Y> I know about du(1) but I am looking for some program that can detect the Y> dynamics and pinpoint the offending files. 73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 2871 5EA7 52AB 12F8 0CE1 4AAC A0E2 6627) -- http://vereshagin.org
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