[X4U] help with ilife 05 insstall

Stroller MacMonster at myrealbox.com
Wed Feb 9 02:14:24 PST 2005


On Feb 9, 2005, at 9:33 am, Allan Hise wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Kansas Territory wrote:
>
>>>> I'm trying to figure out what the heck is taking up 8GB in the first
>>>> place ?
>
> you can use 'du -h' in the Terminal to find out the disk space used by
> each directory. This can help you track down the files.

Sorry to butt in. `du` starts in the current working directory, so if 
you've just opened a terminal that'll only show you the sizes of files 
in your home directory; the OP might find that  `du -h /` includes 
system directories. I also like `sudo du -hs /*` to get sizing for each 
top-level folder, and you can work down from there with `sudo du -hs 
/Applications/*` and so on.

Stroller



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