Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 25, 2005 08:03 PM
An excellent question to ask from time to time, and especially before a critical drive fills up completely. To get the answer, type df on the command line.
But what's taking up all that diskspace? 'du' provides the anwser:
[todsah@jib]~$ whatis du du (1) - estimate file space usage [todsah@jib]~$ du -hs * 93M Mail 32M Trash 426M bin 108M dev 357M download 1.8M notes 4.0K temp
And though it's not a CLI tool, XDU is still very handy. It shows a graphical representation of the output of the 'du' command:
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 25, 2005 08:03 PMBut what's taking up all that diskspace? 'du' provides the anwser:
[todsah@jib]~$ whatis du
du (1) - estimate file space usage
[todsah@jib]~$ du -hs *
93M Mail
32M Trash
426M bin
108M dev
357M download
1.8M notes
4.0K temp
And though it's not a CLI tool, XDU is still very handy. It shows a graphical representation of the output of the 'du' command:
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