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Re: Why so big(2)



on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:58:00PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk (patrick@enterprise-hr.com) wrote:
> > My apologies for sending an attachemnt but it is only 4.1 k.  This is my
> > installed list.
> > 
> > /dev/hda2             703M  574M   93M  86% /
> > du -m /usr/        399
> > du -m /usr/src/     173
> > du -m /usr/share    148
> > 
> > du -m /home     120
> > 
> > I don't have anything other than samba and python installed.  How can
> > /usr/share be so big?
> 
> As previously mentioned, du will summarize disk usage for you:
> 
>     $ du -sx * | sort -nr | cat -n | head -20
> 
> ...will rank the 20 largest files/directories in the current directory.
> 
> 
> > adduser install
> > ae install
> 
> <232 lines deleted>
> 
> You can verify a package's installed size with the dpkg -s command:
> 
>     dpkg -s <package>
> 
> The following script will grab all your installed packages and show
> their installed size, sorted and ranked by size:
> 
>     $ dpkg --get-selections |
>         grep '   install' |
                ^^^
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