On Saturday 10 March 2007 20:44, Tim wrote:
> First the simple bit, whats the command from the command line to tell me
> what a folder size is complete with all sub folder and files etc. (i don't
> mean individaul folder sizes but the whole home folder as one figure)
>
> The reason I ask, I run KDE, if I open konqueror in (file mode) and if I
> right click on my home folder (/home), it will tell me it is 5.1gb in size.
>
> But at the bottom of the same window it tells me that I have 93.2gb free
> out of 103.9gb 11% used which is about 10.7gb difference (my home folder is
> on its own partiton (hda6)), so if my home folder is 5.1gb in size where
> the other 5.6gb gone???
It might be lost space. Filesystems generally assign space to files
in blocks (depends on the filesystem type and size of the disc), so
a 17 byte file might actually take up 1k on disc. Konqueror is
probably only counting the 17bytes, but the freespace is counting
the whole 1k.
btw, Konqueror has a 'file size view', which displays the relative
sizes of all your folders, so you can see exactly where the space is
being used. There's also a KDE utility called filelight which does
much the same, but prettier.
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