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jpeps

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PostPosted: Sun 09 Dec 2012, 14:20    Post subject:  
greengeek wrote:
rmcellig wrote:
My save file indicator is now green. Here are the contents of my save file.

In that image there is no data listed for the size of each directory, and I always find this makes it hard to know which directory to investigate in order to trim the excess unwanted files. Does anyone know of a way to display directory size rather than just individual files?


cd /initrd/pup_rw

du -h -d1
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greengeek


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PostPosted: Sun 09 Dec 2012, 14:28    Post subject:  
I just found a tip on another topic which suggested using menu, filesystem, gdmap to display parts of the filesystem in order to track where the largest blocks of data are. Looks like a really helpful programme. It creates an amazing image - almost worthy of being used as a desktop background.

You just hover over each block and it tells you what it belongs to. Made me realise my mhwaveedit temp files were huge.
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PostPosted: Sun 09 Dec 2012, 14:34    Post subject:  
jpeps wrote:
cd /initrd/pup_rw
du -h -d1

Thanks jpeps. This seems to give an "invalid option" syntax error though. Neither "minus d one" nor "minus d ell" seems to work. Am I reading it wrong? Thx.
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PostPosted: Sun 09 Dec 2012, 15:10    Post subject:  
greengeek wrote:
jpeps wrote:
cd /initrd/pup_rw
du -h -d1

Thanks jpeps. This seems to give an "invalid option" syntax error though. Neither "minus d one" nor "minus d ell" seems to work. Am I reading it wrong? Thx.


that's -d[one]

strange: what version of busybox? busybox | head -1

also: du --help

(try busybox du -h -d1 ??)

edit: both gnu-coreutils and busybox should have -d option.
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PostPosted: Sun 09 Dec 2012, 17:36    Post subject:  
greengeek wrote:
... my mhwaveedit temp files were huge.

I had that problem ... http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74992&sid=56d69fe3ed23172aff3f9d5ffe74d892
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PostPosted: Mon 10 Dec 2012, 02:48    Post subject:  
jpeps wrote:
strange: what version of busybox? busybox | head -1

Code:
sh-4.1# busybox |head -1
BusyBox v1.17.2 (2011-10-03 16:04:49 GMT-8) multi-call binary.
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PostPosted: Mon 10 Dec 2012, 02:52    Post subject:  
jpeps wrote:
try busybox du -h -d1 ??

Thanks jpeps - that got it. The busybox du lists all the directories and sizes. cheers.
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PostPosted: Mon 10 Dec 2012, 03:15    Post subject:  
Barkin wrote:
I had that problem ... http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74992&sid=56d69fe3ed23172aff3f9d5ffe74d892

Barkin wrote:
I removed the old mhwaveedit/config file, and mhwaveedit automagically generated a new, much shorter one.

Thanks Barkin. I have now deleted those temp files and will wait to see what happens.Partview now shows orange instead of red, so some progress there.

EDIT: Looks like I also have a problem with openoffice. I have a directory for /opt/openoffice (about 400MB) and a folder for /opt/libreoffice(also about 400MB). I only use Libreoffice on this machine, so I figure that the openoffice directory is something I don't need. However, if I try to rename it (to see if it causes any problems if I prepare to delete it) it won't let me rename it - it insists on making a duplicate directory with the new name. Hmmm.
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PostPosted: Mon 10 Dec 2012, 04:44    Post subject:  
greengeek wrote:
jpeps wrote:
try busybox du -h -d1 ??

Thanks jpeps - that got it. The busybox du lists all the directories and sizes. cheers.


Could you post "du --version | head -1" ? Maybe old coreutil versions don't include it?
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PostPosted: Mon 10 Dec 2012, 17:06    Post subject:  
This is from the current Wary:
Code:

# busybox |head -1
BusyBox v1.19.3 (2011-11-09 07:34:50 WST) multi-call binary.


Code:

# du --version | head -1
du (GNU coreutils) 6.12
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jpeps

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PostPosted: Mon 10 Dec 2012, 18:35    Post subject:  
Keef wrote:
This is from the current Wary:

Code:


du (GNU coreutils) 6.12


Thanks,

Exprimo uses 8.14, which has -d arg.

6.1 was released in Aug, 2006
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Flash
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PostPosted: Mon 10 Dec 2012, 22:30    Post subject:  
greengeek wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to display directory size rather than just individual files?

In ROX, ctrl+A (select all), then right-click and choose Count from the ROX menu. ROX will show the count for all the directories you selected with ctrl+A. ROX's count is slightly less than what du says. Confused

I like Gdmap, too. Smile
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PostPosted: Tue 11 Dec 2012, 04:45    Post subject:  
jpeps wrote:
Could you post "du --version | head -1" ? Maybe old coreutil versions don't include it?


Code:
sh-4.1# du --version | head -1
du (GNU coreutils) 6.9
sh-4.1#

Hopefully you can make sense of this. (over my head...). Thx for the help.
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PostPosted: Tue 11 Dec 2012, 05:07    Post subject:  
Flash wrote:
In ROX, ctrl+A (select all), then right-click and choose Count from the ROX menu. ROX will show the count for all the directories you selected with ctrl+A.

Excellent. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue 11 Dec 2012, 11:34    Post subject:  
greengeek wrote:

du (GNU coreutils) 6.9
sh-4.1#
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Hopefully you can make sense of this. (over my head...). Thx for the help.


The problem is a very old version of GNU coreutils. I'd consider an update.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77671
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