[Cialug] Cleaning out a network share

[Nathan C. Smith]

Where is the danger, excitement, and risk in that?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com 
> [mailto:Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:49 AM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] Cleaning out a network share
> 
> 
> I guess I'm shooting for more along the lines of 
> 'visualization' than outright deletion.
> 
> We've got a decade of automated tasks / programs / whatever 
> that have been using the share as a dumping ground, and 
> outright deletion is not what management is looking for.  The 
> worst case scenario is each person gets assigned a folder to 
> review, and each file is manually checked for utility value.  
> Again, this is a task where 'seeing what we've got' would 
> save us significant man hours.
> 
> =Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Nathan C. Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:31 PM
> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] Cleaning out a network share
> 
> 1) Make a backup - or two
> 2) Delete it all
> 3) only restore things if they can tell you where or what it 
> is, or what it is called.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com 
> > [mailto:Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:05 PM
> > To: cialug at cialug.org
> > Subject: [Cialug] Cleaning out a network share
> > 
> > 
> > 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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