Here's at least a partial answer for you..
$ du --max-depth=0 /path/to/directory/of/interest 293805812 /path/to/directory/of/interest
That's an easy (though not necessarily quick...du recursively scans the entire directory structure under that path to tally the usage) way to find the total space occupied by a directory. I believe there are ways to exclude subdirectories and perhaps suppress the path output; consult your local manpage for details.
ls can be instructed to sort by date with appropriate flags (again, see your manpage). Capture its output and start whacking the files one by one at the old end of the list. Have ls give you the file sizes; that way you can start with du's output and subtract ls's report of each file's size as you whack it and not have to re-scan the directory each time. I used a similar trick with ls to lock aging files to read-only during a cleanup project. Unfortunately that was at my last place of employment and I no longer have access to the scripts, or I'd give you more detail about it.
Good luck!
HTH, ~Brian
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Subject: [TriLUG] bash help
Hi,
I have a server with a shared repository for files. I plan to devote 70GB of an 80GB HD (a single data partition) to the files. The files are uploaded and placed in the repository via a web application. Here is what I'd like to accomplish:
When directory size exceeds 70GB, delete files, First-In-First-Out, until the repository is pared back to 70GB.
The best
case scenario would be to pare back the files each time a new file is added.
However, I am hoping to do this without adding web application logic, which
could cause additional latency for the user. Although it risks possibly exceeding
the size limit, I am thinking of using a bash script scheduled with cron.
To ensure against exceeding the limit, I'm leaving 10GB of the 80GB as buffer.
I know this is imperfect but my humble intellect can't think of another approach.
So I'm looking for comments on two things:
1. How to make a bash script
look at total directory size, then proceed to delete files FIFO until a target
size is reached;
2. Whether there is a better alternative than putting this script on cron.
Thanks!
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