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| author |  http://edheil.wordpress.com/ <http://edheil.wordpress.com/@web> | 2012-11-28 20:59:39 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2012-11-28 20:59:39 +0000 |
| commit | 5c132cc7ad03d9115ec771ced5dd21b20bb57f79 (patch) | |
| tree | 2dfab25614ce79e06118a3d08e18680b8f22088e | |
| parent | 34c84ebf8eac2d4b61e2ba04b87dc2be321c20d4 (diff) | |
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/__34__du__34___equivalent_on_an_annex__63__.mdwn | 5 |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/__34__du__34___equivalent_on_an_annex__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/__34__du__34___equivalent_on_an_annex__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7485958c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/__34__du__34___equivalent_on_an_annex__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +One reason to use git-annex is to save disk space by tossing files you don't use that often. + +I can find big files in the repository with git annex find --largerthan=100M, but is there a way to find large *directories*? In an ordinary filesystem I'd use "du -h" with a maxdepth to get an idea of what parts of a directory are taking up my disk space, but obviously that won't work with git annex because all the content is in .git/annex. Any ideas? + +(I can get a listing of file sizes in a directory with the handy -L flag of ls -- "ls -lL" shows me the sizes of the link targets -- but that won't summarize all the sizes of subdirectories. Unless my ls-fu is just weak.) |