300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I
had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I
was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is
there a way to list files by filesize? A program, or command similar
to "ls" that lists files, but sorts them in order of filesize? This
way I could attempt to track what is causing this excessive usage of
space. I believe the actual working install of OpenOffice.org is not,
in and of itself, the culprit (I'm guessing that uninstalling it via
synaptic would only free up a bit over 200 MB -- I'm basing this guess
upon viewing the listed created debs in synaptic, and marking them for
removal to see what synaptic would report). As always, all
suggestion/comments appreciated.
--Mark
To sort files in the order of the size use
du --max-depth=1 -m / | sort -g
replace / with the corresponding directory. More information can be
found in 'man du', 'man sort'
raju
Thanks for this suggestion. This space concern happened shortly after I
installed OpenOffice.org 2.0, but that may be a co-incidence. I also
turned on a usb storage device that a friend of mine gave to me (which
had an old Windows file system on it.) I think something, for some
reason, is repeating itself (a sort of loop) within my computer
somewhere. Last night, nautilus reported that I had zero bytes (I had
had eighteen, previously.) So, I eliminated various files and programs,
freeing up 3.1 GB (I previously had not been able to read email due to
space limitations.) This morning, once again, it reported zero bytes
free. Rebooting did not change this. So again, I deleted some more stuff.
Is there a way to check what processes are going on, so that perhaps I
could kill whichever one is screwing up my computer? Also, an hour ago
I entered the command "du --max-depth=1 -m/ | sort -g", and it's still
pondering this.
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