[ale] Disk Space used in the past 5 days

[Jim Kinney]

Yep. sounds like a cron job with 'du' iterated over many, many directories
and data stored in a rrdb project.
you can set directory depth and even show mtime.


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com>
wrote:

> It isn't likely to give you what you need anyway.   While you could get
> the current size of any file changed in the last 5 days it is quite likely
> that many of the files (especially logs) simply grew in that period.   That
> is to say the space they're currently using may be more than they began
> using in the last 5 days unless they were also created in that time.
> Similarly if you did ctime instead of mtime it would show you the ones
> created in that period but would leave out any growth in existing files.
>
> To get "growth" you'd have to have a baseline (e.g. total sizes today)
> then compare to that at some future point (e.g. 5 days from now).   You
> could create a cron job to store the information each day.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JD
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:19 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Disk Space used in the past 5 days
>
> On 08/14/2014 10:48 AM, Chuck Payne wrote:
> > find . -mtime +5 -exec du -sh {} \;
>
> It seems to be asking for files OVER 5 days old. You want less than 5
> days, right?
>
> find . -mtime -5 -exec du -sh {} \;
>
> Also - directory changes will be included, so limiting it to files might
> be a good idea.
>
>
> find . -mtime -5 -type f -exec du -sh {} \;
>
> I'm not getting the "summary" -
>
> find . -mtime -5 -type f  -print0 |  du -hc --files0-from=-
>
> Is closer.
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