[wellylug] Where is my disk space?

[Damon Lynch]

Or if that's overwhelming, you could also try this:

df

this will tell you which partition(s) on your system are full up.  If
you have kde installed and like GUIs, try kdf.

Damon

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 19:02, Dave wrote:
> Not a problem.
> 
> Go to your root dir (cd /) and run this command AS ROOT:
> 
> du -ch | grep "[0-9]M" | sort -gnr > large-directory-list
> 
> This will take quite a while as (obviously) it's going to go through your
> entire file-system, but when it's done you'll have a file in your root
> directory called "large-directory-list".
> 
> Open that file and you'll find it's a complete directory listing of your
> file system with the largest directories listed at the top preceded by their
> size in Megabytes.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andrew Presant" <zrx1100 at paradise.net.nz>
> To: "WLUG list address" <wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz>
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 6:46 PM
> Subject: [wellylug] Where is my disk space?
> 
> 
> > OK, I'm a Mac user, and can use Windows... New to Linux.
> >
> > I have a Linux machine with a 20Gb dick and Red Hat 8.0 installed. I can't
> > do anymore updates because I have no disk space left.
> >
> > Where can it be? How can I tell?
> > What can I do?
> > What can I delete? (Games etc) How?
> >
> > This is the type of thing I had hoped I could find out at meetings.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andrew
> > -- 
> > zrx1100 at paradise.net.nz
> > http://203.79.119.197/index.html
> >
> >
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