1 # Copyright (C) 2008 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
3 # Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
6 purpose "advanced disk usage
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.
30 option "database-dir" d
31 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
32 "directory containing the osl tables"
36 Full path to the directory containing the osl tables. This
37 directory must exist. It must be writable for the user running
38 adu in --create mode and readable in --select mode.
48 Log messages are always written to stderr while normal output
49 goes to stdout. Lower values mean more verbose logging.
54 "files to take into account"
55 string typestr="pattern"
58 Shell wildcard pattern that must match a file in order to be
59 included in the database in --create mode or in the output
60 for --select mode. Only the part of the filename below the
61 base directory is matched against the pattern. The default
62 is to take all files into account. See fnmatch(3) for details.
72 adu may be started in one of three possible modes, each of
73 which corresponds to a different command line option. Exactly
74 one of these options must be given.
79 groupoption "create" C
80 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
81 "Create a new database"
84 Traverse the given directory and track disk user on a per-user
85 basis. Results are stored in N + 1 osl tables where N is
86 the number of uids that own at least one regular file in
90 groupoption "interactive" I
91 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
92 "activate interactive mode"
95 In this mode, adu reads commands from stdin. This makes it
96 possible to run different select queries without opening the
97 underlying osl database for each query (which is expensive).
100 groupoption "select" S
101 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
102 "query a database previously created with --create"
105 This option prints statistics about matching subdirectories
106 to stdout. The output can be customized by specifying select
110 ##############################
111 section "Options for --create"
112 ##############################
116 "directory to traverse"
117 string typestr="path"
121 The base directory to be traversed recursively. Must be
122 given if --create mode was selected. A warning message is
123 printed for each subdirectory that could not be read because
124 of insufficient permission. These directories will be ignored
125 when computing statistics.
128 option "one-file-system" x
129 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
130 "do not dive into other file systems"
134 Skip directories that are on different filesystems from the
135 one that the argument being processed is on.
138 option "hash-table-bits" -
139 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
140 "specify the size of the uid hash table"
146 Use a hash table of size 2^num for the uid entries. If more than
147 2^num different uids own at least one regular file under base-dir,
148 the command fails. Increase this value if you have more than 1024
149 users. Decreasing the value causes adu to use slightly less memory.
152 ##############################
153 section "Options for --select"
154 ##############################
156 option "select-options" s
157 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
158 "Options for select mode"
159 string typestr="<options>"
163 This option takes a string whose content is another set of
164 options as described below. Select options may be specified
165 either directly in select mode, in which case you have to quote
166 them to prevent them from being interpreted as adu options,
167 or via the \"set\" command in interactive mode.