Re: Directory size, used, available, and percent-used?

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 11/02/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:00:44 +0100

Clueless newbie <nospam@nospsm.nospam> wrote:

> Dances With Crows wrote:
>>What about symlinks? You'll have to be careful if, f'rexample,

> Please excuse my poor english; I cannot find "rexample" in English
> to Russian dictionary. What does "f'rexample," mean? Is slang?

It's "for example", written phonetically and with a typo (missing
space between the words - or maybe he meant to run it together).
Surely merely missing a space and apostrophizing the "for" doesn't
make it unreadable!

>>/opt is part of / , and /opt/junk/ is a symlink to /home/junk/ , which
>>contains ~800M of important stuff. The "-x /dev/hdXY" option to du
>>may help you out there.

> Is possible problem with solution being proper usage of switches.

> For example:

> "du /usr/X11 -sh" says 0MB.

I presume you mean /usr/lib/X11. It's a symlink.

> Which variation is correct for finding out the size of the
> disk needed to hold /usr/X11?

None. It's a symlink - it takes no space.
 
Peter

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