[ale] What is safe to delete?

[jason_lynn_ at hotmail.com (Jason Lynn)]

cd /; du -s *
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>Hi all,
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>Another question...
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>A guy I contracted with to set up a box for me made the / partition 3 GB.  
>Well, this should be enough, but this thing is almost full.
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>Is there an easy way to find out what is taking up so much space?
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>Also, is there a way to make the ls -al listing show the size of the 
>Directories?  Not just the directory *entries*, but how much disk space all 
>of the files in that directory are taking up on disk?
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>Thanks
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>Charles
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