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Viewing the Amount of Disk Space Consumed by a User


This task describes how to view how much disk space a specific user is using.

To List the Amount of Disk Space Consumed by a User

  1. Access the USERS application menu as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes.
  2. Select Disk Space. BMC PATROL displays the Disk Space dialog box.
  3. Type the user name and click Apply. BMC PATROL writes the results to a BMC PATROL task object (Disk Space Users) in the UNIX OS container.

    Access the Disk Space Users task object as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes and view the results. Your results should resemble this example:

    # PSL Serial No.: #########
    <NOT INTERACTIVE>

    show user: 3Suprv disk space information

    Processing, this might take a while, please wait ...
    NIS is detected, get information from NIS database
    Disk usage for user: 3Suprv
    20      /home/3Suprv/pcache/tmp
    68      /home/3Suprv/pcache/knowledge
    16      /home/3Suprv/pcache/psl
    16      /home/3Suprv/nsmail
    ---------------- >>>>> DONE <<<<< ----------------

Output Format

The output has the following format. Following table defines each field.

size    /path/

 Disk Space Command Output Format 

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BMC PATROL for UNIX and Linux 9.13