Re: Is there a quick way to see what is filling up the disk?

Not disagreeing that this particular bit can give focus to your efforts. As you say on this system focusing on libraries would be pointless. Normally they are the largest part of the system, this displayed system must be a host partition for example.

BUT in a pinch you need to already have this (and yes, you SHOULD!) but it will be from 'not right now' so if the problem was runnaway temp space for example you wouldn't see that because it didn't exist at snap time. And this thing takes TIME to run which may not be available.

The SQL bits I posted earlier in the thread will report temp space in about 1 second. Worth a look!! And even on the system you show, if someone DID have a runaway RPG task that was creating records at a ridiculous pace then this report would mislead to believe that libraries are inconsequential here!


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On 10/10/2019 8:04 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

And if you had access to the just announced TR stuff you could query IFS for large objects.
I still say that running RTVDSKINF is the only way to ensure you are putting your effort in the right place.
Would any of the suggested solutions have helped you one iota on a system like the following?
% of Size in
Description Disk 1,000,000 bytes
User libraries .06 14836.29
User directories 71.73 16697532.27
Folders and documents .00 .13
QSYS .01 2462.65
Other IBM libraries .05 12126.13
Licensed Internal Code .04 9781.15
Temporary space .04 8252.36
Unused space 28.05 6529322.89
System internal objects .00 292.72
Objects not in a library .00 .02
QTEMP libraries .00 26.39
TOTAL 99.98 23274633.00
None of the following would have cleared up so much as 1% of this system:
- spool files
- objects in libraries
- temporary space


Rob Berendt