On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:45 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > > du -xsh /* Summary of the size of all dirs that are on "/"-partition > > serach the biggest dir and then go to that dir and do the same.=20 > > Hey - that's a very useful command. ;) > > It lists directories that could be located on their own file systems, > though. Adding -x according to the man page for du suggests that > it not count space mounted on other filesystems, But on my system > /var is listed in that output, and /var is mounted on another > partition.
Ummmm, it could be that at one time /var was part of / and later it was mounted separately. A typical example is when a power failure bonks the partition where /var would be mounted, so the filesysatem check drops you into a shell (with logs running and a /var being created on / to accept the output).... Now when the partition is mounted on /var, then the /var sitting in / is not destroyed, just suppressed. You could check the output you mention against du -xsh /var/* Civileme Civileme
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