Re: OOo2.0 space concern
kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> writes:
> Mark Grieveson wrote:
>>
>> 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install,
>> I had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward,
>> I was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere.
>> Is there a way to list files by filesize? A program, or command
>> similar to "ls" that lists files, but sorts them in order of
>> filesize? This way I could attempt to track what is causing this
>> excessive usage of space. I believe the actual working install of
>> OpenOffice.org is not, in and of itself, the culprit (I'm guessing
>> that uninstalling it via synaptic would only free up a bit over 200
>> MB -- I'm basing this guess upon viewing the listed created debs in
>> synaptic, and marking them for removal to see what synaptic would
>> report). As always, all suggestion/comments appreciated.
>> --Mark
>
> To sort files in the order of the size use
> du --max-depth=1 -m / | sort -g
xdiskusage and filelight are nice GUIs for viewing your disk usage.
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