# Head into the Music diredtory and rerun the du command there > cd Music Let's take the Music directory and see what's in there:
I do a lot of work with my guitar and I have a lot of data associated with it so it's the biggest by far. You run du in in summary mode, where all of the numbers are in kilobytes and then you sort them numerically, where the larger numbers go to the bottom. Now let's break that down: > du -sk * | sort -n # This might take a while to run so be patient > du -sh # If I want to know where it's going, I would first find out how much is being used in my # home directory. # You can see that I have, essentially, a 500GB disk on my mac and I'm using nearly all of it. įilesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on # Find out how much disk you have available > df.
