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Re: User folder size confusion

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On 8/31/13   PDT 1:50 PM, Lewis wrote:
> In message <chine.bleu-29B8AE.16445230082013@news.eternal-september.org>
>    Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> In article <SalmonEgg-94AEF1.16293630082013@news80.forteinc.com>,
>>   Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>> I am using SnowLeopard on a Mac Pro desktop. I am trying to install a
>>> SSD considerably smaller than my present rotating boot drive, WDHD. In
>>> the process, I am trying to find disk space that is not really needed.
>>>
>>> In the Finder, I click on my boot disk as displayed in list format. I
>>> get a list of folders. I highlight "Users" and click to get size
>>> information. 287.18 GB. That seems large, and everything else in the
>>> volume is a tenth tge size--the largest about 15GB. No surprises there.
>>>
>>> I try to find out what the largest pieces of the almost300GB are. I
>>> click on the left hand triangle to look at the inner list in more
>>> detail. Sure enough, the account name shows up, but it is shown as an
>>> alias. The unlogged in users show up as folders. I can get information
>>> on their sizes.
>
>> You can find large folders with du, such as
>>      du /Users | sort -n -r
>
> Much better and faster to use find to find the large files. That will give you the large folders in nearly every case.
>
>     sudo find /Users -size +500M -ls
>
> will give you all the files over 500MB.
>
>     sudo find /Users -size +1G -ls
>
> for all the files over 1GB

I have used Finder's find function with Size added. Seems to work ok. 
But what does "sudo find" do?

-- 
John McWilliams

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User folder size confusion Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-08-30 16:29 -0700
  Re: User folder size confusion Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2013-08-30 16:44 -0700
    Re: User folder size confusion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-08-31 20:50 +0000
      Re: User folder size confusion John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-09-03 12:34 -0700
        Re: User folder size confusion Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-03 17:49 -0400
          Re: User folder size confusion John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-09-03 15:32 -0700
            Re: User folder size confusion Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-03 16:48 -0700
            Re: User folder size confusion Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-03 20:48 -0400
        Re: User folder size confusion Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 17:45 -0700
          Re: User folder size confusion Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-03 18:06 -0700
            Re: User folder size confusion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-09-06 15:05 +0000
        Re: User folder size confusion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-09-04 22:06 +0000
  Re: User folder size confusion nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-08-30 19:51 -0400
  Re: User folder size confusion Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-08-31 06:27 -0700
    Re: User folder size confusion me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-09-02 02:22 +0000
      Re: User folder size confusion nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-01 22:46 -0400
        Re: User folder size confusion nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2013-09-02 07:00 -0600
          Re: User folder size confusion Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-09-02 09:21 -0700
            Re: User folder size confusion nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2013-09-04 03:29 -0600
              Re: User folder size confusion Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-09-04 10:49 -0700
      Re: User folder size confusion Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-09-02 16:38 -0700
      Re: User folder size confusion Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-09-02 16:45 -0700
  Re: User folder size confusion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-08-31 20:46 +0000

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