[Beowulf] { hopefully on topic } tools for measuring dir sizes and growth trends on 30TB+ scale-out NAS?

[Hearns, John]

> Someone somewhere in beowulf land has certainly dealt with this before 
> ... looking for a clue, tip or URL pointer if possible

> For well curated directories that use year/month/day in the directory 
> names a simple "du -mcs" recursing to a certain depths works fine for 
> printing out a CSV with a directory name, a size in MB and the 
> year/month it was last modified. That's all I'm really looking for. I 
> want to show growth month-by-month and year-by-year and break it down 
> by top-level directories that match either genome sequencing platform 
> types or big project names...


I use agedu to display usage charts on storage:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/agedu/

Its a great tool - you can 'drill down' into each directory and get the underlying usage.
Web interface naturally.
Great for standing over users and pointing them towards the amounts of storage they are using.

Sadly I don't think it does the historic trending that you are looking for.

You COULD run an agedu scan every day on a cron job and squirrel the results away, but I guess comparing the historic plots would not be easy.

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