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
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