Calculating the size of /

[Jim Byrnes]

On 09/11/2012 12:03 PM, PleegWat wrote:
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> On 09/11/2012 06:01 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> Yes if I start the Disk Usage Analyzer with gksu.  Here's a
>> screenshot of what I see:
>>
>> http://s12.postimage.org/9bmvoz125/Disk_Usage_Analyzer.png
>>
>> The one on the left is started from the Applications menu and the
>> one the right is started with gksu.  If I start nautilus with gksu
>> in root I see the Desktop folder with 0 itmes and
>> gparted_details.htm from 2 years ago.  Free space is reported as
>> 151.4GB.
>>
>> At this point I don't know which one, if any, to believe.
>>
>> Regards,  Jim
>>
>>
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> Any directories or files whose name starts with a period (.) is a
> hidden directory or file which will not be visible by default. In
> nautilus, in the 'View' menu, click 'Show Hidden Files' to make these
> visible.

This is how I have nautilus setup.

> The directory displayed as 'Home' in nautilus when started with gksu
> is root's home directory, not yours, and will have different contents.

I didn't know it had one.  This clears up some of the confusion I 
mentioned to Colin in another message.

So can you tell me why the contents of /root shown by gksu nautilus and 
/root shown by gksu baobab are so different.

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