[Cialug] Cleaning out a network share

David Champion dchampion at visionary.com
Wed Oct 25 17:37:15 CDT 2006


I prefer rm -fr.

If it's on a linux box, I use a lot of this when I'm trying to track 
down who's hogging all the disk space :

du -sb * | sort -n

-dc

Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com wrote:
> We've got a network share that holds 90GB of data and has 180,000 files.
> We're trying to sort out what's exactly on the drive so that we can lock
> directories down and clean out others.
> 
> Has anyone had to deal with similar before?  What tools are helpful for
> the task?
> 
> I've spent the afternoon with:
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/ 
> 
> It's nice and works well, but I'm certain there's better out there.
> 
> =Dan
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