[Linux-disciples] du, narrowed a bit

[Dylan Thurston]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:16:38AM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:50:50PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > I see in 'df' that one of my partitions is more full than I
> > expected it to be:
> > 
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda1             9.3G  7.6G  1.3G  86% /
> > 
> > I'd like to see which files on that mount point are taking
> > up space. But if I do 'du /', I'm going to get a list of
> > every file beneath / -- including /home, which is on a
> > different volume. So how can I get a listing of all the
> > files on /dev/hda1, preferably sortable by size?
> 
> du -x / | sort -n

By the way, if you want to look by package rather than by file, you can
convince aptitude to sort by installed size.

Peace,
	Dylan
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