1 # Copyright (C) 2008 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
3 # Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
8 adu creates a database containing disk usage statistics of a given
9 directory. It allows to query that database to quickly retrieve
10 usage patterns of subdirectories and/or files owned by a given user id.
13 #########################
14 section "General options"
15 #########################
17 option "config-file" c
18 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
19 "(default='~/.adurc')"
20 string typestr="filename"
23 Options may be given at the command line or in the
24 configuration file. As usual, if an option is given both at
25 the command line and in the configuration file, the command
26 line option takes precedence.
29 option "database-dir" d
30 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
31 "directory containing the osl tables"
35 Full path to the directory containing the osl tables. This
36 directory must exist. It must be writable for the user running
37 adu in --create mode and readable in --select mode.
47 Log messages are always written to stderr while normal output
48 goes to stdout. Lower values mean more verbose logging.
53 "files to take into account"
54 string typestr="pattern"
57 Shell wildcard pattern that must match a file in order to be
58 included in the database in --create mode or in the output
59 for --select mode. Only the part of the filename below the
60 base directory is matched against the pattern. The default
61 is to take all files into account. See fnmatch(3) for details.
71 adu may be started in one of three possible modes, each of
72 which corresponds to a different command line option. Exactly
73 one of these options must be given.
78 groupoption "create" C
79 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
80 "Create a new database"
83 Traverse the given directory and track disk user on a per-user
84 basis. Results are stored in N + 1 osl tables where N is
85 the number of uids that own at least one regular file in
89 groupoption "interactive" I
90 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
91 "activate interactive mode"
94 In this mode, adu reads commands from stdin. This makes it
95 possible to run different select queries without opening the
96 underlying osl database for each query (which is expensive).
98 In interactive mode, several subcommands are available, see
99 the end of this document.
102 groupoption "select" S
103 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
104 "query a database previously created with --create"
107 This option prints statistics about matching subdirectories
108 to stdout. The output can be customized by specifying select
112 ##############################
113 section "Options for --create"
114 ##############################
118 "directory to traverse"
119 string typestr="path"
123 The base directory to be traversed recursively. Must be
124 given if --create mode was selected. A warning message is
125 printed for each subdirectory that could not be read because
126 of insufficient permission. These directories will be ignored
127 when computing statistics.
130 option "one-file-system" x
131 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
132 "do not dive into other file systems"
136 Skip directories that are on different file systems from the
137 one that the argument being processed is on.
140 option "hash-table-bits" -
141 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
142 "specify the size of the uid hash table"
148 Use a hash table of size 2^num for the uid entries. If more than
149 2^num different uids own at least one regular file under base-dir,
150 the command fails. Increase this value if you have more than 1024
151 users. Decreasing the value causes adu to use slightly less memory.
154 ##############################
155 section "Options for --select"
156 ##############################
158 option "select-options" s
159 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
160 "Options for select mode"
161 string typestr="<options>"
165 This option takes a string whose content is another set of
166 options as described below. Select options may be specified
167 either directly in select mode, in which case you have use
168 quotes to prevent the select options from being interpreted
169 as adu options, or via the \"set\" command in interactive mode.