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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Christopher Chambers <cchamb0@interchange.ubc.ca>
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:08:18PM -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?

Check out the du(1) command.

Go in to a file system and type du -sk *   or  maybe  du -sh * 
(I prefer the former because then all numbers have the same value)

Once you determine some directory that seems out of line, go in to that
directory and do it again.

////jerry


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