Patent ID: 9710164
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: identifying, by a computer processor of a computing system, software activities associated with software of an endpoint computing system linked to a file system comprised by a disk storage device; identifying, by said computer processor, representations for said software activities with respect to said file system; defining, by said computer processor, objects associated with said file system, wherein said objects are associated with functions and features of said software activities, wherein said objects impact available free space on a logical disk of said disk storage device; logically linking, by said computer processor, each software activity of said software activities with at least one associated object of said objects, wherein said objects logically linked to said software activities define a behavior of an associated software activity causing changes to associated objects on said file system; populating, by said processor, said logical disk with said objects logically linked to said software activities; periodically monitoring, by said processor, a size of said objects; determining, by said computer processor based on results of said periodically monitoring, an amount of disk space of said logical disk of said disk storage device occupied by each object of said objects, wherein said determining said amount of disk space comprises: analyzing, by said computer processor, an impact of each object of said objects with respect to an amount of available free disk space of said logical disk of said disk storage device, wherein said analyzing comprises determining that available storage space in said logical disk falls below a pre-defined limit; and determining, by said computer processor based on results of said linking and said analyzing, a specific cause for said file system exceeding said available free space.