From: Yuri Csapo <ycsapo@mines.edu>
To: Beginner <dermot@sciencephoto.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Storage Management
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:39:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B30F22.6090900@mines.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B2FDA7.6133.3CEF9902@dermot.sciencephoto.com>
Hi Dp.,
I'm sure you're right and there probably are tools out there to do what
you want. As an old-schooler though I must point out that that is not
"the Unix way" (and sorry if I equate Linux and Unix, but that's how I
see it). I think you really should do something creative with find or
perl or ruby or python. Not only it would be a great way to exercise
your sysadmin skills, it might become the basis for a whole library of
discrete tools to do that kind of thing that would in the least save you
some money; and might conceivably be useful for others and you could
make your own contribution to the Open Source world some day!
Just my $.02...
Yuri
Beginner wrote:
> Hi Admins,
>
> I notice that one of my disk-based systems has lots of files that
> seem to have been hanging around for a ages. One user had over 50GB
> of data in a folder and they have left over a year ago.
>
> I am sure there are both commercial and open source tools for
> managing disk space. I want to identify very old files like the ones
> above and mark them for archiving and hopefully have a reporting
> tools so I can show users how much they are hogging and what files
> have been around for a long time.
>
> Does anyone have an recommendations on a tool that might help? I
> could do something creative with find and perl but I think there are
> better tools out there than anything I could do. Is this what they
> call storage resource management?
>
> Thanx,
> Dp.
>
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2008-02-13 14:24 Storage Management Beginner
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