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On Wednesday 05 November 2008 18:26:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > * Use 'qsize' from app-portage/portage-utils to find out package sizes. |
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> > * Use 'du -sm /* /*/* | sort -n' to take a first peak at how files are |
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> > distributed on your disk. |
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> and don't forget that du is lying - a lot. |
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No it doesn't, du is very exact. |
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It's just exact in ways the user seldom expects it be exact in. Especially |
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when they have the block size wrong, or don't understand SI units (that's OK, |
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nobody understands SI units) or include symlinks, or don't grok sparse |
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files... |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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