Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 17:13:18 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers? Message-ID: <CADy1Ce6A4JbJpNeKAfwxRQgbqh%2BxZhS7GJ-RaeZAS=O3NuHFpw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E1367E7.3050205@rawbw.com> References: <4E1367E7.3050205@rawbw.com>
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On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > Yuri kdirstat might prove useful, if it's run periodically. Kurt
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