On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:52:38AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:08:18 -0700, Christopher Chambers <cchamb0@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote: > > Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and > > folders are taking up the most space? > > See "man du". Just for terminology: In UNIX (so in FreeBSD), there > are no folders. Folders are made of paper and reside in a cabinet. :-) > > These are called directories. > > You don't call files "sheets of paper" either, do you? :-) YES!! I'm probably too up-tight about the use of "folder", but it just seems like waaaaaay too much stupiding-down of the std Unix terminology. ([I thought I was the only one]. And yes, there are things of greater gravitas to be ticked off about!) gary > [ ... ] > > >