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Re: Tool showing directory size of the complet drive



On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 18:52, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> Hi,
> I am looking on Debian woody for a tool which can show me the size of
> folders/files of my complete drive to proof where my disk-space is
> wasted.
> I am now on 75% and I do not have a clue where my space is wasted.
> Can I scan my hole drive and show the largest files in sorting order.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a tool for that?
> 

see: man du

to see where my diskspace had gone, i usually use:
   > du | sort -rn|less
or
   > du | sort -rn > DiskUsage.txt

HTH, Stefan.
> 
> Oliver
> -- 
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__________________________________________________________________________
Stefan Janecek
Institute of Semiconductor & Solid State Physics
Universtity of Linz/Austria               

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