Is there an existing tool for such storage problems ?

[Spearnorth]

Hi,

I have an annoying problem with one of my data server.

It has too little disk space, and servers are being changed in the months to come, so i cannot invest in changing the existing disks, the management won't allow me to.

Here's the matter :
Some people don't care about disk space, i cannot put quotas on the company shared data, but when i arrive at the office, and i see 10 GBs of data were added, i'd like to know who did that, and where the data are ?
Is there some kind of service that logs growing folders & disks ?
I have freemeter, but it only tells me the state of the disk and how full it is, not where those 10 GB are, and who put these there.

Thanks if you can be of any help !

 

[itsp1965]

The low tech solution is to open a cmd prompt and from the root of the drive

C:\> dir /o-s /q /s > spacechk.txt

The /o-s parameter will list files in order of largest to smallest size and the /q parameter will indicate the owner.

 

[GrimR]

You could use vbscript to monitor an event.

Check out Hey scripting Guy for some examples