[CentOS] Suddenly increased my hard disk
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Thu Apr 7 04:48:44 UTC 2016
On 4/6/2016 9:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 12:08:45 +0800
> Chandran Manikandan wrote:
>
>> >Should i need to run above command in home directory or root.
> The command that he gave you will work from any directory. The / means start from the root directory so where you are when you run it is irrelevant.
howevver if he doesn't run it as the root user, it won't be able to
calculate space in directories the current user can't access.
if you are running X-Windows, there's a nifty utility KDirStat that
scans the disk tallying space, then gives you an interactive graphical
view of usage. I believe you can install it from epel as package k4dirstat
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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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