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minus-squareJankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoIs there any advantage of using du over df for this?
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·17 hours agoSomeone may eventually write CLI programs called hast and mich that you can somehow usefully pipe to it
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·18 hours 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-up1·10 hours agoOr you run ncdu and save some keystrokes.
minus-squareVendetta9076@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 hours agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours agoWhat he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.
minus-squareanon_8675309@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours agoYeah it lets you have time to get some tea while it works.
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.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.