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minus-squareJankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoIs there any advantage of using du over df for this?
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoSomeone may eventually write CLI programs called hast and mich that you can somehow usefully pipe to it
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agodf only shows partitions, whereas du adds up the file sizes in the directory you specify. So, in particular, if you want to find out what’s taking up so much space, you can repeatedly run du -sh * and cd into the largest directory.
minus-squareShredderFeederOPAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareShredderFeederOPAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareHelix 🧬@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoOr you run ncdu and save some keystrokes.
minus-squareVendetta9076@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareanon_8675309@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYeah it lets you have time to get some tea while it works.
minus-squaremal3oon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI gotten used to dust instead of du because it has much nicer visual representation.
Is there any advantage of using
duoverdffor this?Someone may eventually write CLI programs called
hastandmichthat you can somehow usefully pipe to itNow that’s a good idea
dfonly shows partitions, whereasduadds up the file sizes in the directory you specify.So, in particular, if you want to find out what’s taking up so much space, you can repeatedly run
du -sh *andcdinto the largest directory.What he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
What he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
Or you run
ncduand save some keystrokes.What he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
What he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
Yeah it lets you have time to get some tea while it works.
I gotten used to
dustinstead ofdubecause it has much nicer visual representation.