I have users who have millions of files and am trying to determine which directories have the most files. Is there a way to get a report of which directories have the greatest file counts? Simply performing an ls has almost crashed the server I was working on in a single directory I identified as problematic. My instinct is either XCP or Quotas but I have not yet been able to figure out how to get the information I am looking for with either of these.
#Find largest directories by file count
toxic bridge
austere ravine
you can it with XCP using the scan option
it's what I use for the exact same purpose
xcp scan -stats -html -preserve-atime \NETAPP\SHARE
you can also use the systems built in file analytics tool for the same thing
storage, volume, file system, explorer, enable analytics, wait for it to finish and then the usage tab
toxic bridge
you can it with XCP using the scan option
it's what I use for the exact same pur...
So i ran this command but it has only identified the user that i was already aware of, is there some way to view the directories with these files?
austere ravine
not sure what you mean.
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/concept_nas_file_system_analytics_overview.html#file-system-analytics-feature-availability
FSA shows all the directories and their sizes.
You can also just manually mount the share from a windows/linux machine and use a standard command such as Tree/Treeview
toxic bridge
toxic bridge
not sure what you mean.
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/concept_nas_file_sys...
Sorry i was specifically referring to XCP. I will try FSA
toxic bridge
I was hoping xcp would work as the source is on an isilon. I am trying to migrate it to Netapp but a directory is too large to transfer and I am helping him identify which directories to clean up
austere ravine
that is strange, we migrated a set of shares with over 120mil files. many folders had over 1mil files each
toxic bridge
The reason its failing is due to an individual directory size being greater than the -maxdirsize setting which allows for a directory to be up to 320mb. The directory size is based on the number of files in the directory. This setting can be increased but has a performance impact. I have identified the directory that is preventing the migration but would like to be able to scan for other directories that may become problematic in the future. A fast way to list the largest directories by file count is what I need for this, preferably regardless of the type of host it is on hence why I wanted to find a way to use XCP to list top directories by total files.