Re: Script to show space usage by users in home partition

TIMTOWTDI and all, but I'd just parse the output of:

# most linuxes ship with du that has --max-depth
$ du -h --max-depth 1 /home

# OR *bsds ship with du that has -d
$ du -h -d 1 /home
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... and look for likely offenders by grepping for high values of M or just G, i.e. output from above on my system:

518K    /usr/home/colette
7.5M    /usr/home/uvnet
 74M    /usr/home/dsia
1.3G    /usr/home/kcowgill
4.0K    /usr/home/kimc
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At least you don't have to do a lot of work that du can do for you - which is more portable (installed on every *nix) than dhog (?) which I've honestly never heard of before.

As the output of du with the -h (human readable) flag (along with some kind of depth flag) is easily readable, implementation is left as an exercise for the, uh ... reader. :-)

--chargrill

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qq-$_-;s,.*,ahc,;$,.=chop for split q,,,reverse;print for($,,$;,$*,$/)
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Re^2: Script to show space usage by users in home partition by klekker (Pilgrim) on Jan 12, 2007 at 09:18 UTC
I use at work a loop over the home directories and 'du', too. Thats ... ($users{uid}) = `/usr/bin/du -s0 --block-size=1048576 $uid ` =~ /^(\d* +)/; ... [download] And %users contains the "wasted" space in MB. Additionally I "nice" the process.	[reply] [d/l]