Re: too much data on disk~ 'x' won't start

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: too much data on disk~ 'x' won't start
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Michael Havens wrote:

> 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


The S* would be expanded and place don the command-line for find. Probably
not what you intended.

Use: find / -name "S*"

But anyways, to find out big files, I often use find.

find / -size +3500 -ls



Jeremy C. Reed

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