[plug] Disk space probs

[Mike Holland]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Leon Blackwell wrote:

> I assume this is a joke... right?
> Definitely not a good solution... please, no one try this.

Oh puh-lease. There is enough dumbing-down already. Let go of their hands.
 
> > du / | sort -n > usage ; tail -50 usage
> 
> Much simpler if you just do this:
> 
> du / | sort -n | tail -50

Not when it just took 5 minutes to du the entire 20GB drive, and you
realise that 50 lines wasnt enough.

> Look at the output, cd to the biggest directory and repeat until
> you find the culprit, then:

Isnt that rather tedious?
 

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Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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