PowerShell... and here's one of my favorites one-liners to find big files: dir c:\temp -force -recurse | sort length -desc | format-table creationtime,lastwritetime,lastaccesstime,length,fullname -auto
You can sort the results replacing the length by any of the properties after format-table On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > On our file server we have a single 1.5tb partition - it's on a SAN. > Over the course of 4 days recently it went from about 30% free to > about 13% free - someone slammed around 200gb onto the file server. > > I have a general idea of where it might be - there are two top-level > directories that are over 200gb each. > > However, windirstat hasn't been completely helpful, as I can't seem to > isolate which files were loaded during those days, and none of the > files that I've been looking at were huge - no ISO or VHD files worth > mentioning, etc.. > > I also am pretty confident that there are a *bunch* of duplicate files > on those directories. > > So, I'm looking for a couple of things: > > 1) A way to get a directory listing that supports a time/date stamp > (my choice of atime, mtime or ctime) size and a complete path name for > each file/directory on a single line - something like: > > 2009-01-08 16:12 854,509 > K:\Groups\training\On-Site_Special_Training\Customer1.doc > > I've tried every trick I can think of for the 'dir' command and it > won't do what I want, and the 'ls' command from gunuwin32 doesn't seem > to want to do this either. Is there a powershell one-liner that can do > this for me perhaps? > > 2) A recommendation for a duplicate file finder - cheap or free would > be preferred. > > Kurt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
