On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:00:48PM -0400, Sumit Ahuja wrote:
Hi,
I am a newbee on linux. I have two questions:
1-) I didn't find adduser or useradd command to add users. I am currently having
command line access to my machine only so I cannot use graphical utility to add
user.
You should have the useradd (and usermod and userdel) command. How is
it you think you don't?
(If you are su-ing to root, be sure to "su -" so that you get all of
root's environment, especially his PATH, which includes /sbin and
/usr/sbin.)
2-) I have been strangly seeing some excessive amount of disk usage on my
account. I checked my account and it shows as if I am using 100Gb space but
once I calculate the size of all the visible directories it comes out 5Gb only.
I checked all extenstion .*, *.*, *...Any way to get hold on this?
If you
cd
du -s
you get all space consumed by your HOME directory. Then to get it
broken down by directory (including ".*" directories and files), do
du -s `ls -A` | less
(Those backticks (`) are the key above the [Tab] key on most
keyboards.) When you see a large directory, say, ".foobar", you can
cd .foobar
du -s `ls -A` | less
Keep doing that until you've sufficiently narrowed things down.