[wellylug] Where is my disk space?

[Andrew Presant]

On, or about 27/6/03 7:26 PM, "michael at diaspora.gen.nz" may have said:

>> Not at all obvious to someone new to Linux...
>> *ducks*   :-)
> 
> How would you do this in Windows?  MacOS?  Download a tool, at a guess.
>   -- michael.

Mac: double click the HD icon and read the info at the top of the window, or
'Cmd I' on the icon of the disk.
Then view the folders by size (as the folders are label "Applications",
Documents", "System" etc you can tell what's in them).
Select the ones you don't want (ie Games/Doom) and delete it

This is what I want to know.

I still don't know where the space has gone... I thought a FULL install was
around 4.5Gb but I have nothing left out of a 20Gb disk.

It's OK that a Linux system takes an ENTIRE 20Gb disk for it's OS only?

> 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

I'll try this but still don't know how to remove a disk hog if I don't need
it (or even if I don't need it, or if that's all of it!)

Cheers
Andrew
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