From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 22 06:30:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40781065680 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:30:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594498FC25 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:30:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3M6BdY4003323; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:11:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:10:33 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20090422061032.GA55757@thought.org> References: <1240369698.1037.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090422075238.b932cf9c.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090422075238.b932cf9c.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Christopher Chambers Subject: Re: Disk usage analysis X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:30:55 -0000 On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:52:38AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:08:18 -0700, Christopher Chambers wrote: > > Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and > > folders are taking up the most space? > > See "man du". Just for terminology: In UNIX (so in FreeBSD), there > are no folders. Folders are made of paper and reside in a cabinet. :-) > > These are called directories. > > You don't call files "sheets of paper" either, do you? :-) YES!! I'm probably too up-tight about the use of "folder", but it just seems like waaaaaay too much stupiding-down of the std Unix terminology. ([I thought I was the only one]. And yes, there are things of greater gravitas to be ticked off about!) gary > [ ... ] > > > -- > Polytropon > >From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php