Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:15:29PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Oded Arbel wrote: > > > On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:57, Shoshannah Forbes wrote: > > > > > Is there any utility out there that can help me figure out what is > > > using all my HD space and what can be removed s

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-12 Oded Arbel wrote: > Side note to Amir Tal: > Isn't this what IGLU is all about - getting into heated discussions over > simple issues ? > ;-) ok, here goes :) du -sk * will ignore files/directories that start with a dot.. and these can sometimes be large too. (for example .ccache

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sunday 12 January 2003 14:15, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > du -scH /ath/to/check/* |sort -n Side note : I don't think this line would work - it will sort '32MB' before '450kB' which is hardly what you'd want :-) Side note to Amir Tal: Isn't this what IGLU is all about - getting into heated discus

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:57, Shoshannah Forbes wrote: > > > Is there any utility out there that can help me figure out what is > > using all my HD space and what can be removed safely, without making a > > mess? > > An automated one ? not that I can rec

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Amir Tal
On Sunday 12 January 2003 13:07, Nadav Har'El wrote: people, what all the fuss about ? didn't shoshnnah ONLY want to know how much free space she has on each partition ? what's wrong with a simple "df -h" ? :) as for the OO installation, my guess is that its a simple low space in /tmp or ~/tmp

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Skliarouk Arie
Hello, On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003, Shoshannah Forbes wrote about "Dealing with low disk space": > > Is there any utility out there that can help me figure out what is > > using all my HD space and what can be removed safely, without making a > > mess? > > But

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003, Shoshannah Forbes wrote about "Dealing with low disk space": > Is there any utility out there that can help me figure out what is > using all my HD space and what can be removed safely, without making a > mess? Several people suggested "du" to you. Du would be very useful w

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Christoph Bugel
> du -sk * | sort -n And you also probably want to use 'df -k' [1] to see how much free space you have, listed per partition. If your partitoin is too small to begin with, you can tell OpenOffice to install itself into a different location. [1] or df -H, as I just learnt from Oded's post :)

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-12 Shoshannah Forbes wrote: > A newbie question: when attempting to install a large > application (OpenOffice) it refused due to "low disk space". > > Is there any utility out there that can help me figure out > what is using all my HD space and what can be removed safely, > without ma

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shoshannah Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A newbie question: when attempting to install a large application > (OpenOffice) it refused due to "low disk space". > > Is there any utility out there that can help me figure out what is > using all my HD space and what can be removed safely, witho

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:57, Shoshannah Forbes wrote: > Is there any utility out there that can help me figure out what is > using all my HD space and what can be removed safely, without making a > mess? An automated one ? not that I can recall. but you can always use `du -Hs` to look at each