Re: OT: Solaris: Finding the cause for disk space growth
i normally go to the mount point (ie highest level dir for that disk) and issue: du -k | sort -n that way you see where the space is going in descending sequence good luck, steve Naveen, Nahata (IE10) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/2004 03:44 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:OT: Solaris: Finding the cause for disk space growth Hi All, Sorry for an OT question, but nowhere else to go. Pretty new to Solaris so might be a naive question. Need a pointer on how to do this. The disk space in the machine is constantly decreasing. And I want to know which files/directories are growing. Is there any way to find out? Regards Naveen
RE: OT: Solaris: Finding the cause for disk space growth
I'm new in the unix world, so get stuck in simple things like this. I'm thankful to the list, since I didn't get rebuked for asking a non-oracle question. du (disk usage) worked easily for me, though Jared's idea of using find was amusing, I'll get acquainted with that command as well. Regards Naveen -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Naveen, Nahata (IE10) INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Re: OT: Solaris: Finding the cause for disk space growth
Check out the du (disk usage) command. man du [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/04 03:44AM Hi All, Sorry for an OT question, but nowhere else to go. Pretty new to Solaris so might be a naive question. Need a pointer on how to do this. The disk space in the machine is constantly decreasing. And I want to knowwhich files/directories are growing. Is there any way to find out? Regards Naveen
Re: OT: Solaris: Finding the cause for disk space growth
Naveen, Since you are new to Solaris, how new are you to unix/linux? If you are already aware of anything, I apoligize: spool the output of df -k to a file. I really like the script command for this. Wait some time (long enough for more disk to get used) and do it again (rename the first file if you used script). Then diff list1 list2 This should tell you which mount point changed. Since you are asking this in an Oracle forum, I'll guess that the mount point that is growing is related to an Oracle database. At a similar interval to the df command above, run something like this in your Oracle database. If you have more than one, do it in all, but spool to a instance_specific file name: spool begin (or end) select tablespace_name, sum(bytes)/1024 Kb from dba_extents group by tablespace_name order by 1 asc; spool off diff begin end will tell you which tablespace is growing. You can then modify the query above to see which object is growing in that tablespace. I won't write that one for you or you won't get a chance to learn anything from this grin Good luck and let us know how it goes. Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/04 01:44AM Hi All, Sorry for an OT question, but nowhere else to go. Pretty new to Solaris so might be a naive question. Need a pointer on how to do this. The disk space in the machine is constantly decreasing. And I want to know which files/directories are growing. Is there any way to find out? Regards Naveen -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen Andert INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Re: OT: Solaris: Finding the cause for disk space growth
One way to determine where to start looking is via find: find / -mtime -1 -type f -print | xargs ls -ld This will find all files touched within the list day. If you get the gnu version of find, you can use '-mmin -30' to find all files touched in the last 30 minutes. You can then play with sort, and sort on the size of the file and pipe it through head to see the most recently touched files. eg. find /u03 -mtime -1 -type f -print | xargs ls -ld | sort -nr -k5.1|head -5 This command finds all files in the /u03 file system that have been touched in the last day, pipes it to ls, sorts in reverse by file size and then shows you the five largest files. You can run this on /, it will probably take several minutes. Jared Naveen, Nahata (IE10) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/2004 12:44 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:OT: Solaris: Finding the cause for disk space growth Hi All, Sorry for an OT question, but nowhere else to go. Pretty new to Solaris so might be a naive question. Need a pointer on how to do this. The disk space in the machine is constantly decreasing. And I want to know which files/directories are growing. Is there any way to find out? Regards Naveen
RE: OT: Solaris: Finding the cause for disk space growth
Naveen - Are you using autoextend on any of your datafiles? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L One way to determine where to start looking is via find: find / -mtime -1 -type f -print | xargs ls -ld This will find all files touched within the list day. If you get the gnu version of find, you can use '-mmin -30' to find all files touched in the last 30 minutes. You can then play with sort, and sort on the size of the file and pipe it through head to see the most recently touched files. eg. find /u03 -mtime -1 -type f -print | xargs ls -ld | sort -nr -k5.1|head -5 This command finds all files in the /u03 file system that have been touched in the last day, pipes it to ls, sorts in reverse by file size and then shows you the five largest files. You can run this on /, it will probably take several minutes. Jared Naveen, Nahata (IE10) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/2004 12:44 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:OT: Solaris: Finding the cause for disk space growth Hi All, Sorry for an OT question, but nowhere else to go. Pretty new to Solaris so might be a naive question. Need a pointer on how to do this. The disk space in the machine is constantly decreasing. And I want to know which files/directories are growing. Is there any way to find out? Regards Naveen -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
