[ale] What is safe to delete?

[jeff hubbs]

Charles Marcus wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Another question...
> 
> A guy I contracted with to set up a box for me made the / partition 3 GB.  Well, this should be enough, but this thing is almost full.
> 
> Is there an easy way to find out what is taking up so much space?
> 
> Also, is there a way to make the ls -al listing show the size of the Directories?  Not just the directory *entries*, but how much disk space all of the files in that directory are taking up on disk?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Charles
> 

I think you need "du".  "du -h --max-depth=1" is real useful sometimes.

- Jeff


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