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Estimate Linux Filesystem Sizes

I've just come across the unix utility du for the first time. I've known that such a creature had to exist but I didn't know what it was called. What a wonderful tool!

du -h --max-depth=1 | less

does a wonderful job of summarizing the top level subdirectory sizes. I like this a lot.

Update: I should note that you can use this on cygwin and get good results for Windows boxes.

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