[ale] du help THANX

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Aug 16 09:14:59 EDT 2002


Note my comments below:


ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> ALE, 08-16-02 0157
> Thanks for all of the du help (especially Geoffrey and Stephen Nicholas). The 
> magic command that I was looking for was: du -m / /.[^.]?* --max-depth=4 
> |sort -rn  > /data/filesize.txt
> 
> It lists, blends, sorts, dices and chops (as seen on TV!). Utimately, I found 
> that the biggest space users where a couple of video games. Still, can any of 
> these directories be deleted altogether?
> 
> 5447	/
> 4566	/usr
> 1502	/usr/local
> 1423	/usr/local/games
> 1263	/usr/share
> 1087	/usr/lib

Gotta set those priorities, gotta have those games. :)

> 905	/usr/local/games/Descent3
> 519	/usr/local/games/ut
> 346	/usr/share/doc
> 304	/data
> 268	/var
> 212	/usr/bin
> 200	/usr/X11R6

It's unlikely you need /var/www, unless you're running a web server, or 
you're using the manual pages found in /var/wwww/html/manual.

> 149	/var/www
> 148	/var/www/html
> 147	/var/www/html/manual

Unless you're doing something with the tex stuff, you could probably 
remove it.  Do 'rpm -qf /usr/share/texmf' to find out which package 
installed this.  You can try to remove it, but you'll get some 
dependency issues.  It's likely you can remove all the related dependent 
rpms as well.  Only you will know for sure though.

> 142	/usr/share/texmf
> 126	/lib
> 122	/usr/X11R6/lib

Unless you're building a kernel soon, you could tar/bzip2 
/usr/src/linux* up and save some space. It'd be better if you could 
archive it somewhere, say a cd.

> 118	/usr/src/linux-2.4.9-34
> 118	/usr/src
> 116	/usr/share/fonts
> 107	/lib/modules
> 101	/usr/lib/aspell


-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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