* Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007:07:15:18:57:13+0300] scribed: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:54:25AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > > > I was just fiddling with the "tree" utility to see if it would help. > > Unfortunatley, "tree -d -h" returns the size of the directory entries > > themselves (4.0K, 8.0K, etc), rather than the cumulative size of the > > files inside the directory which I was hoping for. Maybe someone else > > has a suggestion. > > du -xh --max-depth=1 will do the trick, but you will need to do it as > root, otherwise you'll get 'permission denied' on some dirs. Here is > mine for comparison (/home is on a separate partition, but it's not > shown due to the -x option): <snip />
Actually, I prefer the following:
sudo du -x --max-depth=3 / | sort -nr | head -n 25
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