Re: [PLUG] Good tools to assay disk usage in linux

["Gavin W. Burris" <bug@wharton.upenn.edu>]

Also, the default sort delimiter is already tab.  ;)

On Wed 04/20/16 12:26PM EDT, JP Vossen wrote:
> Or `man find` and look for "-printf", like:
> 	find . -printf '%M\t%u\t%g\t%t\t%s\t%p\n'
> 	find . -printf '%s\t%p\n'
> 
> If you want to do time stuff, you need to put %T before each time element,
> which confused the heck out of me for a while.  Like:
> 
> # "CCYY-MM-DD HH:MM {tab} size {tab} path" sorted by path:
> find . -type f -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM\t%s\t%p\n' | sort -t'<TAB>'
> -k3,3
> 
> Need to replace <TAB> with a real tab character...
> 
> On 04/20/2016 11:57 AM, Gavin W. Burris wrote:
> >Nice.  You can get rid of awk:
> >alias bigfiles='find . -ls |sort -rn -k7 |head -10'
> >
> >Usually, I just use this for the current dir:
> >alias sizes='du -s * .[a-zA-Z0-9]* -c |sort -n'
> >
> >Here's a fancier one, cli bar graph included:
> >alias bars='du -x --max-depth=1|sort -rn|awk -F / -v c=$COLUMNS '"'"'NR==1{t=$1}NR>1{r=int($1/t*c+.5); b="\033[1;31m"; for (i=0; i<r; i++) b=b"#"; printf " %5.2f%% %s\033[0m %s\n", $1/t*100, b, $2}'"'"'|tac'
> >
> >Cheers.
> >
> >
> >On Wed 04/20/16 11:19AM EDT, Andy Wojnarek wrote:
> >>I use:
> >>
> >>Andrews-MacBook-Pro:/ root# find . -ls 2>/dev/null | awk '{ print $7 " " $NF }' | sort -rn | head -5
> >>5706997760 ./Users/awojnarek/Downloads/VMware-OpenStack-2.0.0.0-3717954_OVF10.ova
> >>3438788608 ./System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/data
> >>1315634608 ./Library/Updates/031-53822/OSXUpd10.11.4Patch.pkg
> >>1150844928 ./Users/awojnarek/sft/ubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> >>1073741824 ./private/var/vm/sleepimage
> >>
> >>I like using find command, it’s quicker than du.
> >>
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Andrew Wojnarek |  Sr. Systems Engineer    | ATS Group, LLC
> >>
> >>
> >>On Apr 20, 2016, at 11:14 AM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org<mailto:jp@jpsdomain.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >>I used to use `du -hl <various>` a lot until I found `ncdu` which is a curses-based CLI tool.  The awesome part is that it walks the tree first, then you can navigate around instantly, to see what's what.  It's in the repos for Debuntu-like systems.
> >>
> >>`man ncdu` and see "-x" and  "--exclude-caches" also.
> >>
> >>
> >>If that doesn't work, here are some other clues:
> >>http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/
> >>* gt5 - Quite similar to ncdu, but a different approach.
> >>* tdu - Another small ncurses-based disk usage visualization utility.
> >>* TreeSize - GTK, using a treeview.
> >>* Baobab - GTK, using pie-charts, a treeview and a treemap. Comes with GNOME.
> >>* GdMap - GTK, with a treemap display.
> >>* Filelight - KDE, using pie-charts.
> >>* KDirStat - KDE, with a treemap display.
> >>* QDiskUsage - Qt, using pie-charts.
> >>* xdiskusage - FLTK, with a treemap display.
> >>* fsv - 3D visualization.
> >>* Philesight - Web-based clone of Filelight.
> >>
> >>
> >>On 04/20/2016 10:56 AM, Michael Lazin wrote:
> >>I often use "du -sh ./*" to see what directory in a webspace uses the
> >>most space.  This will list the size of each directory you are in in
> >>human readable format.  If you want something fancier let me know.  I
> >>can probably point you in the right direction.
> >>
> >>On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Paul Walker <pjwalker76@gmail.com
> >><mailto:pjwalker76@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>    Looking for good command line tools for assaying disk usage. I'd
> >>    like to be able to crawl the disk down to an arbitrary depth and
> >>    output the size of each directory. I don't really want to write too
> >>    much bash in the process! Any good goto tools you could share?
> 
> 
> Later,
> JP
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