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Date:      Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:06:06 +0200
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To:        Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, wrote: ;
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers? 
Message-ID:  <201107061406.p66E66ob052183@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:13:18 PDT." <CADy1Ce6A4JbJpNeKAfwxRQgbqh%2BxZhS7GJ-RaeZAS=O3NuHFpw@mail.gmail.com> 

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Kurt Buff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and it's
> > hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge index
> > file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was the bug in KDE
> > writing some huge index somewhere in ~/.kde4.
> >
> > Is there a tool slowly indexing the file system and showing where exactly
> > did the sudden growth of consumed space occur?
> >
> > I know about du(1) but I am looking for some program that can detect the
> > dynamics and pinpoint the offending files.
> >
> > Yuri
> 
> kdirstat might prove useful, if it's run periodically.

/usr/ports/sysutils/kdirstat

Cheers,
Julian
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