du More helpfully: du | sort -rn Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, John Hoffoss wrote: > I'm curious to know what applications or programs are available > (command-line, preferably, but GUI works too) that will show used disk-space > by directory, similar to what can be had in Windows Explorer. I know of df, > but AFAICT that only shows information by partition. Not very helpful if > you're trying to find or prune something like Gentoo's source and > compilation cache to free some space. > > Thanks, > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Flaming > > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 13:57 > > To: TCLUG Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Simple slackware question > > > > > > AFAICT, the files in this directory are just listings of > > files which have > > been removed from your system when you installed particular > > packages. This > > could be useful information if your system can't find a > > particular file which > > you formerly had, and you need to know which package it was part of. > > > > I doubt that any harm would come from removing the files in this > > directory, but I don't really see the benefit. It shouldn't > > take up more > > than a couple of megabytes, and if you're that strapped for > > space, there are > > probably better solutions ;) > > > > |) > > |)enji > > > > > > On Monday 15 December 2003 12:53 pm, Josh Trutwin wrote: > > > I'm new to slackware, so this should be easy. Oddly though > > I cannot > > > find this one on google. > > > > > > Is it ok to remove stuff from /var/log/removed_packages to > > free up a > > > little space or is this needed for some reason? > > > > > > Thx, > > > > > > Josh > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list