on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:00:53PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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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