On Sat, 21 May 2005, John Reese wrote:

> A question for the community-
>
> Is there a way to monitor disk usage in real time *without* a disk read?

Hi John,

If this is causing issues with your backups - what do you intend to do 
once you identify the offending file/directory...delete the big files, not 
back up that directory/partition?

How are the files being transferred?  If it's FTP or Samba, you can 
probably setup a system to watch the logs and flag any files over a 
certain size.  Maybe a cron job that e-mails you the results every day?