Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:10:33 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Christopher Chambers <cchamb0@interchange.ubc.ca> Subject: Re: Disk usage analysis Message-ID: <20090422061032.GA55757@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090422075238.b932cf9c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1240369698.1037.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090422075238.b932cf9c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:52:38AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:08:18 -0700, Christopher Chambers <cchamb0@interchange.ubc.ca> 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
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