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Re: Eating Away Disk Space



on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:00:53PM -0400, dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:29:01PM -0400, Nick Furman wrote:
> | I seem to be having something eat away disk space on my primary partition.
> | Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
> 
> Karsten posted a neat little shell script a couple days ago that would
> list the largest directories in the current directory.  Run it
> repeatedly on each subdirectory you are interested in to see where the
> space is actually being used.
> 
> (Actually, it may have recursed the whole filesystem automatically, I
> don't remember the details)

    $ du -sx * | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | cat -n

It *does* recurse a directory tree.

The '-x' on the du prevents it from traversing filesystems, though the
'*' will pick up all FSs in PWD.

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