[PLUG] Assessing Hard Disk Usage

[Marvin J. Kosmal]

On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 22:38, Robert Kopp wrote:
> This does seem to be of "general" interest. Anyhow,
> it's good to know how to find out the usage of various
> directories.
> 
> The very large allocation to /mnt probably reflects
> the fact that the Windows partition is mounted when
> the system boots. But what about 28G to "."? That's
> about the space on the second hd not allotted to this
> Linux distribution. 
> 
> I, too, am a /usr user. These are the binaries in the
> execution path available system-wide, right? Not
> surprising.
> 
> I'd be interested in advice on HD partition structure
> based on the figures below. I suppose it might
> indicate that separate partitions were advisable for
> /usr and /home.


That was my point..

For you.on your system..Where is the bulk of your hd usage.??..

Most installs rely heavily on /usr <my experince> for
system files.....

Then the question is ... Where is all the user data going.?

Cheers

HTH


> 
> root at psyche /]# du --max-depth=1 -h
> 16K     ./lost+found
> 428K    ./dev
> du: `./proc/1983/fd/4': No such file or directory
> 129M    ./proc
> 56M     ./var
> 1.5M    ./tmp
> 13M     ./etc
> 19M     ./root
> 2.8G    ./usr
> 6.8M    ./bin
> 6.9M    ./boot
> 3.3G    ./home
> 4.0K    ./initrd
> 73M     ./lib
> 21G     ./mnt
> 244M    ./opt
> 12M     ./sbin
> 4.0K    ./misc
> 12K     ./export
> 1.4M    ./graphics
> 28G     .
> 
> --- "Marvin J. Kosmal" <lamsokvr at xprt.net> wrote:
> 
> > I was wanting to know hard drive usage..
> > 
> 
> 
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