From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 21:40:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h011.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC57E37B405 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 21:40:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 18828 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2001 21:40:21 -0800 Received: from 64.130.100.249 (HELO there) by smtp.directvinternet.com (209.228.33.217) with SMTP; 1 Dec 2001 21:40:21 -0800 X-Sent: 2 Dec 2001 05:40:21 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Darren Crotchett Organization: n/a To: "Anthony Atkielski" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system? Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:40:19 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <008301c17af1$910f4a90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> In-Reply-To: <008301c17af1$910f4a90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011202054021.DC57E37B405@hub.freebsd.org> 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 try du -h / | sort -r do a man du for more du options Darren On Saturday 01 December 2001 11:24 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message