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29^th of December 2006

Here's a nifty little command I used today to find where my hard drive was being most used:

 du -k /home/peterbe/Documents/ | sort -n | tail -10

I'm sure there are even fancier methods and programs but this works pretty damn well. Here's what the output can look like:

 root@trillian:~ # du -k /home/peterbe/Documents/ | sort -n | tail -10
 4240    /home/peterbe/Documents/Kalle
 4852    /home/peterbe/Documents/ChartDirector/lib
 7756    /home/peterbe/Documents/ChartDirector/doc/cdpydoc
 7764    /home/peterbe/Documents/ChartDirector/doc
 13044   /home/peterbe/Documents/*** FONT _ ***/- Font Applications -
 14704   /home/peterbe/Documents/ChartDirector
 547940  /home/peterbe/Documents/*** FONT _ ***
 2171000 /home/peterbe/Documents/MacOSXSoftware/Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium
 3262580 /home/peterbe/Documents/MacOSXSoftware
 5694808 /home/peterbe/Documents/

Comment

Danni - 4th January 2007 [«« Reply to this]
Quite useful.

Even more useful is GDMap: http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/

Cute way of visualizing disk usage. You can identify large folders and files almost instantly.

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