du -s /*
The above command will give you a summary, per directory under "/", of how 
much space each one (and its subdirectories, etc.) is taking up. Please note, 
however, that this will take some time to complete -- "du" will walk the file 
system and tally up everything, and that will take a while.

You might also want to do:
ls -a /
And see if there are any directories whose names start with a "." (other than 
"." and "..") and add them to the "du" list (above).



On Wednesday 30 June 2004 10:17, Michael Havens wrote:
> There is so much data on my disk that when I sstarted Linux this morning
> 'x' wouldn't start. The precursor to this was last night I did 'rm
> /mnt/hda5/*' (my music drive). I thought that maybe it was that the trash
> bin was needed to be emptied, but I found that to be not full except for
> one small file (I had emptied it last night). So I thought maybe it was
> somewhere else on the drive and did 'find / S*' (most of my music starts
> with an S as in Styx and Stevie Nicks and Swing) but after that long search
> that proved to be fruitless. So where could all that extra data be that are
> filling my disk be? ......

-- 
Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/

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