[plug] Disk space probs

[Bret Busby]

Leon Blackwell wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:39:56AM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> > Oh puh-lease. There is enough dumbing-down already. Let go of their hands.
> 
> It's not dumbing down... it's simply not lying about what is and
> isn't a good idea.  I'm sure there was a time when you didn't
> know what you were doing, either.  If you don't want to help the
> newbies, feel free not to  :)

So, who takes responsibility, if some smart person posts a message of
the nature of the rm -rf ..., and, some poor person who actually
believes that advice posted, is posted in good faith, uses such
commands, and stuffs up their system?

> 
> > Not when it just took 5 minutes to du the entire 20GB drive, and you
> > realise that 50 lines wasnt enough.
> 
> Okay...  point taken.  But you'll find that the next du will work
> much faster, anyhow, since much of the filesystem will be cached.
> 

Why not use du -s, progressively down?


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Bret Busby

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