I use du for this.  If you want a listing of how much space the items in 
/usr are taking up, for instance, try:

du -hs /usr/*

|)
|)enji


On Monday 15 December 2003 02:24 pm, John Hoffoss wrote:
> I'm curious to know what applications or programs are available
> (command-line, preferably, but GUI works too) that will show used
> disk-space by directory, similar to what can be had in Windows Explorer. I
> know of df, but AFAICT that only shows information by partition. Not very
> helpful if you're trying to find or prune something like Gentoo's source
> and
> compilation cache to free some space.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
> > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Flaming
> > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 13:57
> > To: TCLUG Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Simple slackware question
> >
> >
> >      AFAICT, the files in this directory are just listings of
> > files which have
> > been removed from your system when you installed particular
> > packages.  This
> > could be useful information if your system can't find a
> > particular file which
> > you formerly had, and you need to know which package it was part of.
> >
> >      I doubt that any harm would come from removing the files in this
> > directory, but I don't really see the benefit.  It shouldn't
> > take up more
> > than a couple of megabytes, and if you're that strapped for
> > space, there are
> > probably better solutions ;)
> >
> > |)
> > |)enji
> >
> > On Monday 15 December 2003 12:53 pm, Josh Trutwin wrote:
> > > I'm new to slackware, so this should be easy.  Oddly though
> >
> > I cannot
> >
> > > find this one on google.
> > >
> > > Is it ok to remove stuff from /var/log/removed_packages to
> >
> > free up a
> >
> > > little space or is this needed for some reason?
> > >
> > > Thx,
> > >
> > > Josh
> > >
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