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To: Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
From: chas <panda@peace.com.my>
Subject: Re: /usr dir is exceeding 100%..help
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Try 

# find /usr -size +Nc -print

this should print out the names of files larger than 
N bytes in the /usr directory (and subdirectories)

eg # find / -size +500000c -print

prints files larger than 500K under /usr

don't forget the 'c' or else N is in blocks.

good luck 

chas

>
> Would someone please tell me how to find out what is filling up my /usr
dir/. I have used du
>but I dont quiet understand how to tell it to look for huge dir's. Is
there another method by
>which I can see the size of dir's so I can rm them.
>
> Your help is much appreciated as I don't want to reinstall all over again.
>
>Thanks
>-lanny
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