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Re^2: sort du -sH output to find that disk hog
by Plankton (Vicar) on Aug 04, 2004 at 21:51 UTC
    How is that an improvement? Did you try and run that say from /home as root? I use du -s so that I don't recurse down the filesystem. I don't really care about the size of 
     ./dogfacemonkey/.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office
    I also use -H because I don't what to have to figure out if 13474481621 is 1347 Megabytes of 13 Gigabytes. But that's just me.

    Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas.
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