Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Whats using all my disc space?
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:41:02
Message-Id: 48F60F02.3090209@ercbroadband.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Whats using all my disc space? by Paul Stear
1 Paul Stear wrote:
2 > Hello all,
3 > How do I list the contents of a disc in size order?
4 > I need to find out the largest files on a disc. It's my home dir which is
5 > 98% full, that's over 180GB used, normally its less than half of this.
6 > I just can't find anything that is very large.
7 >
8 > Thanks in advance for any help
9 > Paul
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11 Do you typically just move files to the trash instead of deleting them
12 outright? I had this problem and it turns out emptying the trash wasn't
13 working on my system, I had to manually go into the .Trash directory and
14 clear it out.
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