From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yuri Csapo Subject: Re: Storage Management Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:39:14 -0700 Message-ID: <47B30F22.6090900@mines.edu> References: <47B2FDA7.6133.3CEF9902@dermot.sciencephoto.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47B2FDA7.6133.3CEF9902@dermot.sciencephoto.com> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Beginner Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Yuri Csapo Academic Computing & Networking Colorado School of Mines CT-256 Phone: (303) 273-3503 Fax: (303) 273-3475 Email: ycsapo@mines.edu Please use the following link to open a service request: http://helpdesk.mines.edu =========================================== With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster