From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 21:24:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C92937B416 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 21:24:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fB25O7M37810; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 06:24:08 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <008301c17af1$910f4a90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system? Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 06:24:01 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I see that there are lots of commands that tell me various things about the filesystems I have mounted and what is on them, but what is the best command or commands to use in order to locate the parts of the file hierarchy that are taking up the most disk space? For example, I have 1.3 GB in use on the /usr filesystem; how can I find out which directories are using the most space (mainly with an eye to deleting stuff that doesn't really need to be there)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message