On Wednesday 05 November 2008 18:26:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > * Use 'qsize' from app-portage/portage-utils to find out package sizes. > > * Use 'du -sm /* /*/* | sort -n' to take a first peak at how files are > > distributed on your disk. > > and don't forget that du is lying - a lot.
No it doesn't, du is very exact. It's just exact in ways the user seldom expects it be exact in. Especially when they have the block size wrong, or don't understand SI units (that's OK, nobody understands SI units) or include symlinks, or don't grok sparse files... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
