How To Monitor Hard Drive Usage In Ubuntu Server Using The Visual Philesight CGI Script

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Oct 17, 2012

This process will add a nice visual representation of the hardrive usage on your Ubuntu server which you can acces over your local network. It’s based on “philesight” which is a nice clone of philelight.

Assuming you already have an Ubuntu LAMP (linux apache mysql php) server with the web root at /var/www and have accesss to the ubuntu terminal carry, out the following.

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