[ale] Disk Space used in the past 5 days

[Chuck Payne]

David,

Try to see how much space I use in 5 days, so I can plug into a spread
sheet to figure up the cost, they give different rates for how much we
store.

Thanks I will try that.

By way, we need to do lunch.


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:23 PM, David Ritchie <deritchie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you trying to fix this (find out what is filling up the file system) or
> simply tracking usage?
>
> for finding big files, I use
>
>    cd <mountpoint>;  find . -xdev -size +1000000c -exec ls -l {} \; | sort
> -n -k 5
>
> Change the size to suit your own preferences and add -mtime to taste.
>
> -- David
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yep. sounds like a cron job with 'du' iterated over many, many
> directories
> > and data stored in a rrdb project.
> > you can set directory depth and even show mtime.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Lightner, Jeff <
> JLightner at dsservices.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > It isn't likely to give you what you need anyway.   While you could get
> > > the current size of any file changed in the last 5 days it is quite
> > likely
> > > that many of the files (especially logs) simply grew in that period.
> > That
> > > is to say the space they're currently using may be more than they began
> > > using in the last 5 days unless they were also created in that time.
> > > Similarly if you did ctime instead of mtime it would show you the ones
> > > created in that period but would leave out any growth in existing
> files.
> > >
> > > To get "growth" you'd have to have a baseline (e.g. total sizes today)
> > > then compare to that at some future point (e.g. 5 days from now).   You
> > > could create a cron job to store the information each day.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JD
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:19 AM
> > > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] Disk Space used in the past 5 days
> > >
> > > On 08/14/2014 10:48 AM, Chuck Payne wrote:
> > > > find . -mtime +5 -exec du -sh {} \;
> > >
> > > It seems to be asking for files OVER 5 days old. You want less than 5
> > > days, right?
> > >
> > > find . -mtime -5 -exec du -sh {} \;
> > >
> > > Also - directory changes will be included, so limiting it to files
> might
> > > be a good idea.
> > >
> > >
> > > find . -mtime -5 -type f -exec du -sh {} \;
> > >
> > > I'm not getting the "summary" -
> > >
> > > find . -mtime -5 -type f  -print0 |  du -hc --files0-from=-
> > >
> > > Is closer.
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