[techtalk] disk space monitoring?

[Jeff Dike]

> What's the best way to monitor disk space usage?  Ok, the most
> efficient way to monitor disk space usage?

du and df are the basic tools.

To find the disks-space hogs, I usually start where I already know the problem 
is (like ~ :-), and do "du -s * | sort -rn" and recurse.

> Surely a script of some nature must be in order...but being rather new
> to this scripting stuff, I'm even more at a loss.

It's simple enough that you don't usually need a script.

				Jeff