From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 17:26:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8FF1065672 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:26:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: from mx1.identry.com (on.identry.com [66.111.0.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D08D8FC0C for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:26:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: (qmail 99234 invoked by uid 89); 17 Dec 2008 17:26:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.110?) (jalmberg@75.127.142.66) by mx1.identry.com with ESMTPA; 17 Dec 2008 17:26:45 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: <283ACBF4-8227-4A24-9E17-80A17CA2A098@identry.com> References: <283ACBF4-8227-4A24-9E17-80A17CA2A098@identry.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <7B241EE7-10A4-4BAA-9ABC-8DA5D4C1048B@identry.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Almberg Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:26:41 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Subject: Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:26:47 -0000 > Is there a command line tool that will help me figure out where the > problem is? I should probably have mentioned that what I currently do is run du -h -d0 / and gradually work my way down the tree, until I find the directory that is hogging disk space. This works, but is not exactly efficient. -- John