adduser not found

[Kevin Raber]

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,