/home/karl/

Rei Shinozuka shino at panix.com
Tue May 11 22:46:10 UTC 2010


when i used to have quotas, i used to run this in $HOME :

du -s .[A-Za-z0-9]* * | sort -nr | head

the biggest file or directory will show up on top.  if it was a 
directory, i'd cd into it and run the du pipeline again.

-rei

>       But the problems found will take some time to figure out. I
> discovered the files that start with a "." which are sure to be a
> necessary thing for a /home/karl/ is now 5.9 GB! This is because there
> are those from several different versions of Ubuntu. This may not be
> easy to make smaller :-(
>
>       I am going to just let it simmer overnight and try again tomorrow.
> I find now that I am 75 years old things move more slowly.
>
> 73 Karl
>
>
>    




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