kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark Grieveson wrote: >> >> 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
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