Bob I realized I never did answer you. Thanks to Neil's information It makes sense. I tried your command but I realized I didn't have sudo installed. But I did look thru some of my directory sizes and most were 1024 with some 2048 and the .OLDgnome with 19456. I always value your input and especialy the cool commands like the one below. Tim
btw Thanks Neil. On Wednesday 08 May 2002 15:33, you wrote: > Timothy Bolz wrote: > > I'm having a problem with the directory sizes going from 1024 to sometime > > 2048 and other times some weird numbers like19456 . I had a problem with > > gnome and started investigating and found the directory sizes were the > > same exept in all two directories. Any suggestions. > > What are the largest directories on your disk? I found two > directories of 188 Kb (192512 bytes) on my system: > > /disk/home/kbob/Mail/from > /tmp/kfm-cache-1000 > > I used this command. > > sudo find / -type d -size +20k -print0 | sudo xargs -0 ls -ds | sort -n | > tail
