adduser not found 2007-08-17 - By Kevin Raber
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Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> 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.
I use almost the same command, but sort for the largest files/dirs -
du -sk `ls -A` | sort -n
then
cd largdir
then hit up-arrow a couple time, and enter again - have fun!
>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> --Sumit
>
> Cheers,
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