Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:06:06 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, wrote: ; Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers? Message-ID: <201107061406.p66E66ob052183@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:13:18 PDT." <CADy1Ce6A4JbJpNeKAfwxRQgbqh%2BxZhS7GJ-RaeZAS=O3NuHFpw@mail.gmail.com>
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Kurt Buff wrote: > 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. /usr/ports/sysutils/kdirstat Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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