Guest Spacewalker Posted October 21, 2007 Posted October 21, 2007 Hi, I am looking for a tool that can monitor and document diskspace / foldesize usage over a period of time. I am thinking of a tool that does kind of "snaphot" every x hours and tell me what changes have occured in diskspace usage. I am currently using "DiskScout" , this is a nice tool and basically does what I need - but maybe there is something else I could use for a comparision? thx & bye Steve
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 21, 2007 Posted October 21, 2007 Re: historical disk space monitoring "Spacewalker" <I_hate_spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23ggO2oBFIHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hi, > > I am looking for a tool that can monitor and document diskspace / > foldesize usage over a period of time. > > I am thinking of a tool that does kind of "snaphot" every x hours and tell > me what changes have occured in diskspace usage. > > I am currently using "DiskScout" , this is a nice tool and basically does > what I need - but maybe there is something else I could use for a > comparision? > > thx & bye > Steve > You could use the Task Scheduler to run this 3-line batch file once every x hours: @echo off set Drive=C:\ for /F "tokens=3-5" %%a in ('dir %Drive% ^| find /i "bytes free"') do echo %date% %time:~0,5% %%a %%b %%c on drive %Drive% >> c:\DiskSpace.log In spite of its simplicity it will give you a full historical log of the amount of free disk space. Remember to unwrap the third line - it is very long!
Guest Steffen Meier Posted October 25, 2007 Posted October 25, 2007 Re: historical disk space monitoring > "Spacewalker" <I_hate_spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:%23ggO2oBFIHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for a tool that can monitor and document diskspace / >> foldesize usage over a period of time. >> >> I am thinking of a tool that does kind of "snaphot" every x hours and >> tell me what changes have occured in diskspace usage. >> >> I am currently using "DiskScout" , this is a nice tool and basically does >> what I need - but maybe there is something else I could use for a >> comparision? >> >> thx & bye >> Steve > You could use the Task Scheduler to run this 3-line batch file once > every x hours: > @echo off > set Drive=C:\ > for /F "tokens=3-5" %%a in ('dir %Drive% ^| find /i "bytes free"') > do echo %date% %time:~0,5% %%a %%b %%c > on drive %Drive% >> c:\DiskSpace.log > > In spite of its simplicity it will give you a full historical log of the > amount of free disk space. Remember to unwrap the third line - > it is very long! That is a very interessting solution indeed, thanks. It monitors diskspace usage. But I am interessted in historical development of foldesizes, too. So far I have only find 2 tools doing this: watchdisk (http://www.poweradmin.com/watchdisk) diskscout (http://www.discscout.com) bye Heinz
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