Jon wrote: > A quick one... > > Does anyone know why a du -sh /home/jdw shows 21GB but a right-click on > my home directory on Nautilus shows 16.7GB? > > I know the 'du' is an estimate, but that's off by quite a bit. Unless > I'm misusing it or something?
"du" will count all the files and folders, including the "hidden" ones that start with a ".". Nautilus probably isn't counting those. There can be quite a lot of space slurped up by the firefox cache, for example, among other things. -- William Astle finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further information Geek Code V3.12: GCS/M/S d- s+:+ !a C++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ !E W++ !N w--- !D !M PS PE V-- Y+ PGP t+@ 5++ X !R tv+@ b+++@ !DI D? G e++ h+ y? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
