[NTLUG:Discuss] disk space

Greg Edwards greg at nas-inet.com
Sat Oct 5 10:09:26 CDT 2002


falconjetflyer at netscape.net wrote:

> I used du -sh *  to check my disk space.    It tells me that I have 
> 5.4 gig in my home directory.   I did du in the home dir and I don't see 
> 5.4.   Only 1.8.   I want to clean out my disk space but i can't find the files.   What am I doing wrong.
> 
> Using Mandrake 8.1
> 
> Garion Sikora
> 


If your current working directory is /home a "du -sh *" will not give 
you the total for home.  A "du -sh ." will give you a total at the end 
of the list.



-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
http://www.nas-inet.com





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