On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:02:07AM -0700, James Vahn wrote:
> Patrick wrote:
> > Help! My harddisks are being sqautted by renegade bits!
> > No, seriousely, my hdd's are slowly filling up, but I'm not realy sure
> > with what. How can I get a comprehensive overview which files are where
> > occupying what space? I tried df, but that is very minimalistic. I'd like
> > to get a treeview of files and space in use...
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> "filelight" is sure nifty, 'though it requires a disk-filling GUI.. ;-)
> "du" for the old school text mode.
> 

You can find out which files/directories are taking most space on disk with:

du / | sort -k 1,1nr | most

If you don't have most installed, use more or less.

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Paul E Condon           
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