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Subject: Re: Short 'n' dirty file space totaller
Message-ID: <16130@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 20:46:02 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 20:46:02 1987
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References: <239@ddsw1.UUCP> <8738@utzoo.UUCP> <2074@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: chuck@amdahl.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons)
Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <2074@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>In article <8738@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>> Here's a real short, cheap-n-dirty disk usage tracker.  [40 lines of C]
>>
>>Um, did you consider:
>>
>>	du -s `awk -F: '{print $6}' /etc/passwd` | sed 's;.*/;;'
>
>Even simpler, for most systems, will be something like
>	du -s /u/*
>(or /u?/* or whatever happens to match the directory/ies where
>your users reside).
>
>David Sherman
>{ uunet!mnetor  pyramid!utai  decvax!utcsri  ihnp4!utzoo } !lsuc!dave

Um...  Suppose my users have files scattered all over the filesystem
and not just in there home directories.  How do I find out who the
disk hogs are then?

(Fortunately, on our system, someone implemented a command to
do this sort of thing, and even documented the command line to use
to find out the above.  But what do mere mortals do on other
Unix systems?)

-- Cs