Disk space used?

Martin Kho lists.kho at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 17:14:21 UTC 2011


On Wednesday 09 November 2011 17:09:37 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On 11/09/2011 02:20 PM, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> > On 11/09/2011 10:18 AM, George Galt wrote:
> >> 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?
> >>>>>> 
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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.
> > 
> > du -sh *
> > 
> > is easier to type. :-)
> 
> It seems that indirectly the KMail2 problems are causing my lack of
> space.  I have the akonadi DB, but then Thunderbird is taking up a
> whopping 53.4GB!   Desperate decisions are needed :-(
> 
> Anne

Hi Anne,

I'm using kmail2 - FC16 - and am very happy with it :-) It's faster than 
kmail1.

Martin Kho



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