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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory disk space Post 302318929 by jim mcnamara on Friday 22nd of May 2009 06:39:56 PM
Old 05-22-2009
There is no simple command to do what you need.

If people are using ridiculous amounts of disk space, instead of trying to police it yourself, enable disk quotas. If you tell us what you need someone here can help you put together a script.
 

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REPQUOTA(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					       REPQUOTA(8)

NAME
repquota -- summarize quotas for a file system SYNOPSIS
repquota [-g] [-u] [-v] filesystem ... repquota [-g] [-u] [-v] -a DESCRIPTION
Repquota prints a summary of the disk usage and quotas for the specified file systems. Available options: -a Print the quotas of all the filesystems configured with a quota mount option file at its root. -g Print only group quotas (the default is to print both group and user quotas if they exist). -u Print only user quotas (the default is to print both group and user quotas if they exist). -v Print a header line before printing each filesystem quotas. For each user or group, the current number of files and amount of space (in kilobytes) is printed, along with any quotas created with edquota(8). Only members of the operator group or the super-user may use this command. FILES
Each of the following quota files is located at the root of the mounted filesystem. The mount option files are empty files whose existence indicates that quotas are to be enabled for that filesystem. .quota.user data file containing user quotas .quota.group data file containing group quotas .quota.ops.user mount option file used to enable user quotas .quota.ops.group mount option file used to enable group quotas SEE ALSO
quota(1), quotactl(2), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8) DIAGNOSTICS
Various messages about inaccessible files; self-explanatory. HISTORY
The repquota command appeared in 4.2BSD. 4.2 Berkeley Distribution March 28, 2002 4.2 Berkeley Distribution
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