Scribbling feverishly on January 11, John Hiemenz managed to emit: > > I've got a friend who has a problem with quota. > > as a regular user, what are the methods for determining where files are that > are causing one to exceed quota?
$ du $HOME More generally, see the du man page. Or, for a more nicely sorted display that shows the top level directory usage in megabytes: $ du -m --max-depth=1 $HOME | sort -nr For example: $ du -m --max-depth=1 $HOME | sort -nr 630 /home/kwall 209 /home/kwall/src 192 /home/kwall/books 130 /home/kwall/Mail 35 /home/kwall/Rollemup 8 /home/kwall/doc 5 /home/kwall/.netscape 2 /home/kwall/bin 1 /home/kwall/public_html 1 /home/kwall/etc 1 /home/kwall/.xfce_bkup 1 /home/kwall/.xfce 1 /home/kwall/.ssh 1 /home/kwall/.amaya Kurt -- You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
