Files Quotas

[compbrat75]

Hello all,

My files quota is getting very high and yet, I can't find all of these files.
We send out email newsletters and the file quota goes up after I do this. My memory is fine, but it looks like I'm creating files, maybe temp files. I can't find them. Anyone have any suggestions?

Desperately seeking files.
~compbrat75

[Chris]

Hey compbrat75,

I will show you how to find out what files are yours and how big they are.

Here is a little command we created to do so. It creates a csv file that you can import into Excel or similar application and sort to find the largest files or sort by name of file.

Login via SSH to the root(/) of your account and run this command:

echo $UID

Then, replace <UID> in the code below, with the above result, and execute the command.

find / -not \( -path '/proc' -prune -o -path '/etc/depend' -prune \) -uid <UID> -ls |awk '{print $7","$11}' > files_list.csv

I hope this works for you :)

[compbrat75]

Hi Chris,
Thanks a bunch! That helped me find some queued files that were prime for the round file.
I even put your command into a little executable linux script to reuse.

Speaking of files to delete, when we add a PERL module, many files are created in a build directory. After the module has been built, do we need to keep these build files? That would free up a lot of file usage on our VDS. :D

Thanks!
~compbrat75

[Chris]

Speaking of files to delete, when we add a PERL module, many files are created in a build directory. After the module has been built, do we need to keep these build files? That would free up a lot of file usage on our VDS.I am pretty sure those are safe to remove. As always, I would back them up to be sure. Have a good weekend :cool: