Re: RH grows bigger and bigger

From: David Dorward (dorward_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/17/05


Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 13:22:17 +0100

Jacky Ferihmen wrote:

> what do you mean?

Are you responding to something? If so, then its useful to quote some
context. Not everybody reads every post, and not every newsserver recieves
posts in the same order.

> Enter stage 1

Stage 1 - the first thing you do in order to look for a solution.

> and use "du"?
> I've tried du, It lists the size of EACH files.

man is your friend, it will tell you all the switches you can pass to du to
limit what it outputs.

You will also find it useful to pipe the output into another program so that
you can scroll and the like.

du -s | less

... for example.

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