From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 20:31:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD50A106564A for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 20:31:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@vereshagin.org) Received: from mx1.skyriver.ru (ns1.skyriver.ru [89.108.118.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9879B8FC1F for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 20:31:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (tor-proxy.vm.31173.se [193.138.216.101]) by mx1.skyriver.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B3ABF5A88 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:02:53 +0400 (MSD) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:31:07 +0400 From: Peter Vereshagin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110707203107.GD5425@external.screwed.box> References: <4E1367E7.3050205@rawbw.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E1367E7.3050205@rawbw.com> Organization: ' X-Face: 8T>{1owI$Byj]]a; ^G]kRf*dkq>E-3':F>4ODP[#X4s"dr?^b&2G@'3lukno]A1wvJ_L(~u 6>I2ra/<,j1%@C[LN=>p#_}RIV+#:KTszp-X$bQOj,K Subject: Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:31:28 -0000 God love is hard to find. You got lucky freebsd-questions! 2011/07/05 12:37:11 -0700 Yuri => 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