On Tuesday 25 October 2005 08:05 am, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I > > had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I > > was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is > > there a way to list files by filesize? A program, or command similar > > to "ls" that lists files, but sorts them in order of filesize? This > > way I could attempt to track what is causing this excessive usage of > > space. I believe the actual working install of OpenOffice.org is not, > > in and of itself, the culprit (I'm guessing that uninstalling it via > > synaptic would only free up a bit over 200 MB -- I'm basing this guess > > upon viewing the listed created debs in synaptic, and marking them for > > removal to see what synaptic would report). As always, all > > suggestion/comments appreciated. > > --Mark > > > > > > > > To sort files in the order of the size use > > du --max-depth=1 -m / | sort -g > > > > replace / with the corresponding directory. More information can be > > found in 'man du', 'man sort' > > > > raju > > Thanks for this suggestion. This space concern happened shortly after I > installed OpenOffice.org 2.0, but that may be a co-incidence. I also > turned on a usb storage device that a friend of mine gave to me (which > had an old Windows file system on it.) I think something, for some > reason, is repeating itself (a sort of loop) within my computer > somewhere. Last night, nautilus reported that I had zero bytes (I had > had eighteen, previously.) So, I eliminated various files and programs, > freeing up 3.1 GB (I previously had not been able to read email due to > space limitations.) This morning, once again, it reported zero bytes > free. Rebooting did not change this. So again, I deleted some more stuff. > > Is there a way to check what processes are going on, so that perhaps I > could kill whichever one is screwing up my computer? Also, an hour ago > I entered the command "du --max-depth=1 -m/ | sort -g", and it's still > pondering this.
If you have KDE installed, run Konqueror and chose View --> View Mode --> File Size View. It does the same thing as 'du' but starts giving visual feedback immediately. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
