# This Ansible playbook just shows you how capture and process disk utilization of a given directory
# How to run:
# ```ansible-playbook disk_usage_dir.yaml```
# Author: Jose Vicente Nunez (kodegeek.com@protonmail.com)
---
- name: Disk utilization capture
hosts: localhost
connection: local
become: true
gather_facts: false
vars_prompt:
- name: source_dir
prompt: "Enter name of the directory to back up"
private: false
default: "/home/josevnz"
tasks:
- name: Capture disk utilization on {{ source_dir }}
block:
- name: Get disk utilization from {{ source_dir }}
ansible.builtin.command:
argv:
- /bin/du
- --max-depth=0
- --block-size=1
- --exclude='*/.cache'
- --exclude='*/.gradle/caches'
- --exclude='*/Downloads'
- "{{ source_dir }}"
register: du_capture
changed_when: "du_capture.rc != 0"
- name: Process DU output
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
du: "{{ du_capture.stdout | regex_replace('\\D+') | int }}"
- name: Print facts for {{ target_device }}
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ source_dir }} -> {{ du }} bytes"
when: du_capture is defined
