On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Michael Stearne wrote about, Showing file sizes:
> I have a 1.1GB(not including swap) hard drive with RH 6.1 on it along
> with about 10 MB in the /www/htdocs directory, yet I have only 100MB
> free. I have no idea where all the space is going. I found a 65MB file
> in /var/spool/mail/root of emails sent to root from various startup
Firstly setup an alias in /etc/aliases for roots mail, send it to yourself,
Eg;
# Person who should get root's mail
root: pa3gcu
pa3gcu is the account who gets root's mail.
> jobs. What I want to know is if there are obvious system files that get
> pretty large that can be deleted safely. And also can is there anyway
> to get a list of the biggest files on the system in desending order so I
> can know where they are. I am thinking of using the find command that
> tells the file size. Maybe I can redirect that into a file and then
> sort that file.
'man du'
might help you here.
Further more if the drive is 1,1 and has a full install of Redhat 6.1 then
it sounds ok to me as a full install was around 900meg AFAIK.
Just what did you install, desktop, full or expert.??
>
> Does anyone know about this offhand?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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Regards Richard
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