Disk space used?

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 11/09/2011 01:09 PM, 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 :-(


cd .thunderbird
du -sh *


Keep digging down until you find where gigabytes of space are being 
used. Most likely in ImapMail under your profile directory.


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