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Hey folks,

Is there a Linux tool that will monitor a disk and tell me which
directories are growing over time?
I could cobble something together myself of course, but if there is already
a good off-the-shelf solution, why bother?

Even if it only checks once per day that would be fine. Graphs would be
pretty too :-)

cheers,
-Alan

--
?Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV?
- Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

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  • John Doe at Jan 6, 2012 at 9:47 am ⇧
    From: Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com>
    Is there a Linux tool that will monitor a disk and tell me which
    directories are growing over time?
    I could cobble something together myself of course, but if there is already
    a good off-the-shelf solution, why bother?
    Even if it only checks once per day that would be fine.? Graphs would be
    pretty too :-)
    Might be overkill but cacti or Nagios+PNP would do this...
    snmp + mrtg might do it too
    But if you want something light, I would just go for something
    homemade with gd for the graphs...

    JD
  • Alan McKay at Jan 6, 2012 at 10:42 am ⇧

    Might be overkill but cacti or Nagios+PNP would do this...
    PNP? What's that ? I already have Icinga installed.


    --
    ?Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV?
    - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"
  • Giles Coochey at Jan 6, 2012 at 10:45 am ⇧

    On Fri, January 6, 2012 16:42, Alan McKay wrote:

    Might be overkill but cacti or Nagios+PNP would do this...
    PNP? What's that ? I already have Icinga installed.
    http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.4/start
  • Alan McKay at Jan 6, 2012 at 10:49 am ⇧
    BTW, in a pinch since I'm already using Munin what I'm going to do is this :

    - write a cronjob that fires maybe 2 to 4 times a day and does a "du -s" of
    directories I'm interested in , and stores the sizes in a file
    - write a simple munin plugin that reads the file (and munin will do the
    graphing for me)

    Munin fires every 5 minutes so it will be a bit of waste since my cronjob
    will only fire a few times a day, but the weekly and monthly munin graphs
    will tell me what I want to know.

    --
    ?Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV?
    - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"
  • Fajar Priyanto at Jan 6, 2012 at 10:55 am ⇧

    On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
    BTW, in a pinch since I'm already using Munin what I'm going to do is this :

    - write a cronjob that fires maybe 2 to 4 times a day and does a "du -s" of
    directories I'm interested in , and stores the sizes in a file
    - write a simple munin plugin that reads the file (and munin will do the
    graphing for me)

    Munin fires every 5 minutes so it will be a bit of waste since my cronjob
    will only fire a few times a day, but the weekly and monthly munin graphs
    will tell me what I want to know
    That sounds good.
    Would you share the munin plugin later pls?
    I'm interested too.
  • Alan McKay at Jan 9, 2012 at 1:14 pm ⇧

    That sounds good.
    Would you share the munin plugin later pls?
    I'm interested too.
    Sure will. This is not a top priority for me so I won't likely get to it
    for another week or two, but once it is done I will share.


    --
    ?Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV?
    - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"
  • Fajar Priyanto at Jan 6, 2012 at 10:17 am ⇧

    On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
    Hey folks,

    Is there a Linux tool that will monitor a disk and tell me which
    directories are growing over time?
    I could cobble something together myself of course, but if there is already
    a good off-the-shelf solution, why bother?

    Even if it only checks once per day that would be fine. ?Graphs would be
    pretty too :-)
    Hi Alan,
    Few to check:
    http://www.humans-enabled.com/2011/06/sample-script-to-report-home-directory.html
    xdiskusage
    filelight

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