Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:40:19 -0600 From: Darren Crotchett <darren@crotchett.com> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system? Message-ID: <20011202054021.DC57E37B405@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <008301c17af1$910f4a90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <008301c17af1$910f4a90$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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try du -h /<some directory> | sort -r do a man du for more du options Darren On Saturday 01 December 2001 11:24 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I see that there are lots of commands that tell me various things about the > filesystems I have mounted and what is on them, but what is the best > command or commands to use in order to locate the parts of the file > hierarchy that are taking up the most disk space? For example, I have 1.3 > GB in use on the /usr filesystem; how can I find out which directories are > using the most space (mainly with an eye to deleting stuff that doesn't > really need to be there)? > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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