From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: [SYSADMIN LINUX] Some interesting tools for linux admin..
   Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:51:07 -0500
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Something I recall needing a lot when I was a sysadmin for production companies
was a way to graph disk use; when disks would get full, the question would always
arise: who's the disk hog, and let's clean it up.

I'd normally pipe du(1) through sort(1) with the -n flag to find the 'big' dirs,
but sometimes it's just easier to look at a graph. Here's an interesting tool
that does just that for linux:

	http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/#introduction

There are numerous similar tools for Windows.

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