RE: [cobalt-users] "My hard Drive needs to lose some weight" - Raq4R

[Phoenix Hawk <phawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Rodolfo Paiz wrote:
> du -h --maxdepth=1 /

(had some problem catching up with the list,
what with balancing schoolwork and helping
a fren admin his cobalt server(s), still 1400+
mails behind *urgh* so this late follow-up
shouldn't be a surprise...)

after looking at the above tip and trying it,
i had some problems with "du".


[root /]# du -h --maxdepth=1 /
du: unrecognized option `--maxdepth=1'
Try `du --help' for more information.


not sure why though, i tried it on a raq4i
with all updates.


so, what i did was:

su -
cd /
du -sk * | sort -rn | less


this will sort the output from "du" and list the
largest files/directories at the top of the
list which is piped to "less" in case the output
becomes excessive ( > 1 screenful )

warning: this will take a long time 'coz it recursively
calculates your file/directory sizes (similar to the
--max-depth option, i should think).

hope this helps to whoever has the same problem
with "du" as me.

just my 2 cents.

regards.


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