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Re: [PLUG] find the user with the most files
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Why not have the users fix it themselves ?
Most companies I've worked at have electronic network usage policy cover
non-business files on the network.
(ie, keep your MP3 files on your local PC, and not on expensive network
storage )
How about just emailing everyone your script to help them find
their own problem files and give them a week to clean up the junk.
With the notice that "To contain costs of network storage and backup costs
that any non-business files are not permitted on network servers. Please
remove any non-business files immediately. Any non-business files found
after Date will be subject to deletion and/or user disciplinary action... "
The problem will fix itself rather quickly, and hopefully educate
these users
on what is appropriate or not on the network.
Writing a script is a technical solution that won't educate anyone
except the
worst violators that you go after.
Other then writing a script, For your own user you might try
baobib ( from gnome-utils ) a graphical disk usage client.
I've found some users can store 100 to 1000 times more info than others
users. Some of them checked in entire source code trees ( with build
results )
dozens of times because they didn't know how to branch code in the
repository
or were just lazy. In this case this is business-related content -
but they are misusing
the system by storing several GB when a branch would only take KB.
Lee
Michael Lazin wrote:
Hi, I'm in a directory containing directories that belong to different
users and we are trying to get users to reduce their disk use to make
our backup servers run better.
I tried
find . | egrep -i
"\.(zip|mkv|mp3|avi|rar|exe|iso|wma|wmv|mpg|mpeg|nfo|r[0-9]+)$"|less
In this directory and noticed a lot of these users have warez, but we
don't have the time or the manpower to go after every user that has
warez. What I want to do is find every directory of a certain name
and output the size of that directory to see who the biggest culprits
are. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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