Re: OOo2.0 space concern
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:33:31PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
> 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.
So is the pipe
du | xdu
-- hendrik
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