Re: [Hampshire] Disk space tracking/du comparison

On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Andy Smith wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 08:06:52AM -0400, Andy Random wrote:
>> Does anybody know of any tools/scripts to track disk space usage or
>> "compare" du output over time?
>
> Any standard network monitoring/reporting package should be able to
> do this. I use snmpd to provide the values, cacti to graph them and
> nagios to alert on them.

I'm not sure how those tools would help do what I'm after.

snmpd isn't likely to provide the level of detail that du does unless
you configure snmp to report on the size of every directory, which seems
somewhat excessive.

I don't need or want a pretty graph (at least I can't envisage a graph
that would help me) and I already know there is an issue because nagios
told me that the drive had reached it's warning level.

What I'm trying to work out is where the disk space has been "eaten" i.e.
which directories have grow significantly between the output of two du
logs.

Andy