Yeah, this is a silly one which you can easily find by running man du but somehow I never got to it and ended up using less efficient methods: du -h -d1 .

This will probably work on other versions of Ubuntu and Linux as well: Assumes you have python >= 2.6 already instaled: $ wget -P Downloads/ http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py $ sudo python Downloads/distribute_setup.py $ sudo easy_install pip

Just some notes that have accumulated: when trying to mount a remote windows NTFS system via: sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.112/E -o username=Administrator,password=mypass /home/me/mybackup/ and receiving: wrong fs type bad option bad superblock on … this is because the cifs flag requires: $ sudo apt-get install smbfs more info here Adding a program to unity …

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