From: "Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>
To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Whats using all my disc space?
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:40:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F60F02.3090209@ercbroadband.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810151635.22001.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com>
Paul Stear wrote:
> Hello all,
> How do I list the contents of a disc in size order?
> I need to find out the largest files on a disc. It's my home dir which is
> 98% full, that's over 180GB used, normally its less than half of this.
> I just can't find anything that is very large.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
> Paul
Do you typically just move files to the trash instead of deleting them
outright? I had this problem and it turns out emptying the trash wasn't
working on my system, I had to manually go into the .Trash directory and
clear it out.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-15 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-15 15:35 [gentoo-amd64] Whats using all my disc space? Paul Stear
2008-10-15 15:32 ` Greg
2008-10-15 15:40 ` Mark Haney [this message]
2008-10-15 15:52 ` Robert Cernansky
2008-10-15 15:57 ` Pascal BERTIN
2008-10-15 15:58 ` Justin
2008-10-15 15:58 ` Tonko Mulder
2008-10-15 16:02 ` andi
2008-10-15 16:20 ` Fernando Boaglio
2008-10-16 4:23 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2008-10-16 12:03 ` gentoo
2008-10-16 4:24 ` Mike Doty
2008-10-16 9:00 ` Pascal BERTIN
2008-10-16 14:52 ` Richard Freeman
2008-10-17 11:12 ` Paul Stear
2008-10-17 13:36 ` Michael Rock
2008-10-18 16:40 ` Peter Humphrey
2008-10-16 14:53 ` Richard Freeman
2008-10-18 18:23 ` Florian D.
2008-10-18 22:13 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
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