Work out where disk space is being consumed

brizrobbo

Hi Folks,

Our default content store is growing at a rate of approx. 300 to 400 Mb per day. Whilst I have a general picture of where this growth is coming from, I am looking for a method of more precisely discovering what the culprit is. Unfortunately, the /iw-store file system is this weird mish-mash of psuedo-random files and directories (I'm sure that the iw-server kernel understands it :-)... so you can't really use file-system tools to work out what is happening.

At the moment, I have written a script that just does a find for all files modified in the last 24-hours (in the /iwmnt/default/main/xxxxx/WORKAREA directories), and then it just adds up the file sizes. Obviously, whilst giving me a general idea, this does not reflect exactly what is happening.

Does anyone know of a way of obtaining this information? Does a IWOV tool (or any KB articles about this) exist?

This is on Solaris.

Thanks.

Adam Stoller

Many moons ago, I believe I posted (or critiqued?) some code that would give you an approximate sizing of the store on a branch-by-branch basis. I no longer remember the code itself, nor do I know if you can find it via Search - but the basics were something along the lines of:

That's a rough algorithm, I might be missing a few pieces, but I believe it's something along those lines.