From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Haines Brown Subject: Re: how to assess occupied space Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 08:12:22 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200209151212.g8FCCMF10511@hartford-hwp.com> References: Return-path: In-reply-to: (message from Mike Dresser on Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:40:38 -0400 (EDT)) List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mdresser_l@windsormachine.com Cc: revobild@revobild.net, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Mike, While du will provide that, you might want to control its output. I put together a little command to pin down an enormous file, the name and location of which I did not know. I've not used it enough to know how reliable it is: du -a | sort -nr | head This includes directories to help me locate the bloated file. The output is sorted by size in reverse order, and that output is limited to the ten biggest files. Haines Brown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs