Install Agedu (Track Down Wasted Disk Space) in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora

Agedu pronounced as (age dee you) is an open source and free utility (much like du command) that helps system administrators to track down wasted disk space used by old files and delete them to free up some space. But how do you track down right stuff to delete and save maximum space?

Install Agedu in RHEL / CentOS / Fedora

Agedu does a complete scan and produces reports that shows how much disk space is utilized by each directory and sub directory along with the last-access times of files. In simple words, it simply helps you to free up disk space.

Agedu Features

1. Creates graphical reports.
2. Produces data output in HTML format.
3. Generates HTML reports with hyperlinks to other directories for easy navigation to gather reports.
4. Provides more configurable options.

How Does Agedu Works?

From the man page:

agedu is a program which does this. It does basically the same sort of disk scan as du, but it also records the last-access times of everything it scans. Then it builds an index that lets it efficiently generate reports giving a summary of the results for each subdirectory, and then it produces those reports on demand.

How to Install Agedu in RHEL, CentOS, Fedora

To install Agedu, you need turn on EPEL repository and run the following command to install it.

# yum install agedu

How to Scan disk using Agedu

The following command will do a complete scan of /home/tecmint directory and its sub-directories and creates a special index file contacting its data structure.

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