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minus-squareJankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoIs there any advantage of using du over df for this?
minus-squaremal3oon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours agoI gotten used to dust instead of du because it has much nicer visual representation.
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 days agoSomeone may eventually write CLI programs called hast and mich that you can somehow usefully pipe to it
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days 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-squareHelix 🧬@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoOr you run ncdu and save some keystrokes.
minus-squareShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareVendetta9076@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareanon_8675309@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoYeah it lets you have time to get some tea while it works.
Is there any advantage of using
duoverdffor this?I gotten used to
dustinstead ofdubecause it has much nicer visual representation.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.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.
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.