Try "du -sk"

This will tell you the size of the current directory and all of the subs
under it.

"man du" for many more options.

> I'm curious to know what applications or programs are available
> (command-line, preferably, but GUI works too) that will show used
> disk-space by directory, similar to what can be had in Windows Explorer.
> I know of df, but AFAICT that only shows information by partition. Not
> very helpful if you're trying to find or prune something like Gentoo's
> source and
> compilation cache to free some space.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
>> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Flaming
>> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 13:57
>> To: TCLUG Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Simple slackware question
>>
>>
>>      AFAICT, the files in this directory are just listings of
>> files which have
>> been removed from your system when you installed particular
>> packages.  This
>> could be useful information if your system can't find a
>> particular file which
>> you formerly had, and you need to know which package it was part of.
>>
>>      I doubt that any harm would come from removing the files in this
>> directory, but I don't really see the benefit.  It shouldn't
>> take up more
>> than a couple of megabytes, and if you're that strapped for
>> space, there are
>> probably better solutions ;)
>>
>> |)
>> |)enji
>>
>>
>> On Monday 15 December 2003 12:53 pm, Josh Trutwin wrote:
>> > I'm new to slackware, so this should be easy.  Oddly though
>> I cannot
>> > find this one on google.
>> >
>> > Is it ok to remove stuff from /var/log/removed_packages to
>> free up a
>> > little space or is this needed for some reason?
>> >
>> > Thx,
>> >
>> > Josh
>> >
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