Larry cd /var; du -sh `ls` is nice. Very readable thanks. Now to put it in my notes to remember. Thanks Tim
On Monday 10 November 2003 01:50 am, you wrote: > I usually use du and a shell expansion > > for instance the following command will grind away and give you a human > readable summary > of all the directories in /var > cd /var; du -sh `ls` > > the backticks around ls will cause the command to be replaced by it's > output. > > On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 09:11 PM, Timothy Bolz wrote: > > I was running out of diskspace. I was sitting at 99 percent disk > > usage and I > > removed some programs and got it down to 98 percent. I then realized > > that > > the .deb files would be taking up space so I removed them and got it > > down to > > 85 percent. I would like to get it lower. When removing some files > > using > > aptitude said it could delete the programs directory because it was > > full. > > There must be a way to force aptitude to delete those unwanted > > directories. > > I was considering using one of the my other partitions as a means of > > increasing the size. The question I have is what directory uses up > > the most > > space and could I just mount it for example /usr and would /usr use > > this > > partiton to extend itself. I have a partition use for my home > > directories > > and it works great. I've just noticed that's getting pretty full too. > > That > > I just have to do some weeding. > > > > Thanks > > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > > EuG-LUG mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
