Re: 97% use of / system

[Patrick Draper <pdraper@gmail.com>]

andy wrote:
> Hello
>
> My / partition is some 12GB and I see that it is currently 97% full. 
> How can I clean this out without trashing important files? What should 
> I be looking for in terms of likely culprits that can be deep-sixed 
> safely?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy

Run a du -Sx | sort -n | less to see what directory is holding the most 
stuff. That reports directories separately, without subdirectory totals 
included. The biggest ones are at the bottom.

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