[Discuss] disk space analysis tools

[Jerry Feldman]

This might be useful for me here. essentially, our NAS system is only at 
about 25%, but our backup server is the one that I need to keep an eye 
on. However, now that we are now owned by a cloud company (eg. IBM) 
maybe we will migrate to the cloud :-)

On 10/11/2011 02:08 PM, Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
> And a few more:
>
> multi-platform GUI-based:
> jDiskReport for a java-based disk analyzer.
>
> I've also written my own tool for doing this (single Python script):
> https://github.com/ijstokes/duscan
>
> This had the advantage of being runnable from a cron job and the
> results were always available to me (incl clickable HTML and pie
> charts).  It has the disadvantage of (potentially) creating O(N)
> additional small files, one per directory, if you choose to persist the
> disk usage summaries.  A sqlite (or similar) version would be a nice
> improvement!  Anyway, it accumulated disk usage by user and group, and
> kept a list of big files.  These were (and are) things that are
> relevant to me with a multi-TB multi-user system.
>
> And while we're on the topic, but for OS X:
> Disk Inventory X for OS X
>
>


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