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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:17:39 +0100 "Robin Cornelius" <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 9/20/06, Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > du * -s | grep sort -g > > > > > > this will show you a sorted list of files and sub directorys and there > > > size (biggest at the bottom) > > > > > I tried that but it complained about the -g option. > > > > yea thats cause i told you rubbish! > > I'm so use to piping someting into a grep that it just got typed! > > it should be > > du * -s | sort -g > > Sorry! > Ok, I did that on root and here is the result > du: `proc/6162/task': No such file or directory du: `proc/6162/fd': No such file or directory du: `proc/6289/task': No such file or directory du: `proc/6289/fd': No such file or directory du: `proc/6353/task': No such file or directory du: `proc/6353/fd': No such file or directory du: `proc/6462/task': No such file or directory du: `proc/6462/fd': No such file or directory du: `proc/6477/task': No such file or directory du: `proc/6477/fd': No such file or directory 0 sys 2.5M opt 2.6M dev 3.1M boot 3.7M root 3.8G usr 4.9G home 5.5M bin 6.8M sbin 8.0K initrd 8.0K mnt 16K lost+found 34M lib 52M etc 156K tmp 490M var 514M proc [root@localhost /]# The only big ones seem to be proc and var. Is that to be expected? Neil Winchurst -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html