disk space

[Duboux]

I was looking at the disk space in DA and saw that the home dir (partition) already used 53 Gb.

I was like that's a lot...
There are about 50 users on there, and the average max size they have is 100mb.
They are able to cron their own backups, but the total backup is stored on another server..

How can I find out where most of the weight is coming from ?

I'm not that big of a shell expert

 

[nobaloney]

You can drill down into each directory and from that directory run:

# du -sh

(The "#" is not to be typed; it simply points out that you run the command as root.)

Or on a per user basis you can run (also as root):

# find / -user USERNAME

for a list of all files owned by user USERNAME.

Jeff

 

[Duboux]

ah, found it

our server has a useraccount for the backups, that sends backups from DA, dns, home, mail, mysql and the system to another machine. But it obviously also keeps a copy in its own user-directory.

So there's the backup files in /home/backupuser which are 28 Gb
And the userbackup from it in admin (its reseller) home/admin/user_backups/backupuser.tar.gz which is 24 Gb

The total home dir size = 56 Gb now.


So I guess I shouldn't need to worry, and perhaps can turn off the userbackup for the backup-user to save me 24 Gb.


Thanx Jeff