Richard Adams wrote:
> 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
>
I don't even use mail on this machine, it is just a development box and would
rather it not be sent.
>
> 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.
>
Did I say find? I meant du.
>
> 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.??
>
I did an expert and only installed the things I needed. But I did install X
and gnome, I guess they are the first to get rid of.
Thanks,
Michael
>
> >
> > Does anyone know about this offhand?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
> >
>
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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