Disk space used?

[George Galt]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Martin (KDE) <kde at fahrendorf.de> wrote:
> Am 09.11.2011 09:54, schrieb Anne Wilson:
>> On Wednesday 09 Nov 2011 10:14:12 Yaroslav Sapozhnyk wrote:
>>> The utility's name is Filelight. Hope that helps.
>>>
>> That was it!  Thanks
>
> If you only have the command line at hand 'du' is a good tool as well.
>
> regards
>
> Martin
>
>>
>> Anne
>>
>>> -Yaroslav
>>>
>>> 2011/11/9 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
>>>
>>>> My /home is filling up and I need to decide what can go.  The problem is
>>>> that I
>>>> can't remember the name of the utility that shows me which directories
>>>> are taking up most disk space.  Can someone remind me, please?
>>>>
>>>> Anne
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I often use du -h --max-depth=1 to get a quick read on what
subdirectories are hogging space.  By limiting the depth, the report
doesn't get overwhelming.  If necessary, I'll drill down in a
particular subdirectory.