[ale] What is safe to delete?
jeff hubbs
hbbs at mediaone.net
Fri Jan 18 10:55:37 EST 2002
Charles Marcus wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Another question...
>
> A guy I contracted with to set up a box for me made the / partition 3 GB. Well, this should be enough, but this thing is almost full.
>
> Is there an easy way to find out what is taking up so much space?
>
> Also, is there a way to make the ls -al listing show the size of the Directories? Not just the directory *entries*, but how much disk space all of the files in that directory are taking up on disk?
>
> Thanks
>
> Charles
>
I think you need "du". "du -h --max-depth=1" is real useful sometimes.
- Jeff
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