Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Friday 23 September 2011 10:53:56 Darac Marjal wrote:
> As an aside, this is why I don't recommend using "du -h" with "sort -n".
> "du -h" is a great way to see where your space is being used, as it
> presents the sizes in human readable format. However, "sort -n" sorts
> numerically but critically, it doesn't know that, in this instance, 23G
> is larger than 164M

Thanks, Darac.  In fairness to my advisors, I must point out that they 
recommended sort -h.  But my system, for reasons of its own, jibs at - h (I 
have included one of its jibs in the passage you quoted).  So I changed it 
to - n and left myself the task of picking out the largest file.  My human 
brain had no difficulty in recognising 22G as the largest file!! 

Thanks for the recommendations.  I shall install and look at them - it would 
be nice to have choice next time I leave myself up the creek without a 
paddle.

Lisi