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Subject: Re: Storage question
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On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 15:00:45 -0453.75
William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

> 
> 
> I am prepping to bring 2 new FreeBSD 9.3R boxen online. I am trying
> to figure out how large to make root & usr partitions to make most 
> effective use of storage. To that end, I did the following:
> 
> 
> find / -xdev -maxdepth 3 -type f -exec ls -lSrF {} +

It's easier to see the usage if you use: 

du -xhd1 / 

and then work down.