I'll have to read up on my 'find' implementation. That seems likely.

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 17:59, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> In re: [1], either 'du' or 'find' can do what you want.
>
> I'm pretty sure that I had a native Windows application called "scanner.exe" 
> that did that too - but I'm unable to locate it right now.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael B. Smith
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 8:49 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Finding a huge file dump from June...
>
> 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
>
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