[Discuss] disk space analysis tools

[david3d at gmail.com (David Miller)]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org> wrote:

> Since my background is a software engineer not a system administrator, I
> have generally used DU to manage my own disk space, or possibly to look
> at disk space usage on the BLU servers. But, recently I'm seeing
> significant increase in my work's backup server (a WD MyBook). While du
> works fine (using the appropriate options), it does take some time to
> analyze the results. One issue I have is whether the increase in space
> is due to someone moving things around (such as in a client space) that
> will break the hard links, but eventually the storage will go down as
> the older dailies are removed. I only keep a few weeks because out New
> York office backs us up also.
>
> So, what I am looking for is either some decent tools I can use that are
> less time consuming than looking at du output.


Have a look at Baobab.  Its a graphical disk space analyzer that works on
local and remote disks.
--
David