Re: disk usage checking

["Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx taylor intel com>]

Hailong Li wrote:
> Hi there,
> Recently, my server's disk usage grows very fast, do you know how to check the
> users' file system size? Under /home directory, there are 20 subdirectories,
> over 5,000 user accounts are assigned to those subdirectories. How to check
> the user's filesystem size quickly so that I can ask users to delete some of
> their files? The Operating System is RedHat 7.2.
> Thanks alot!
> Hailong Li

du -sh /home/*

You should setup some quotas for your disk.  That will warn users when 
they get close to the specified disk usage.

man quota
man quotaon
man edquota

Forrest
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