Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > > > The Tuesday 2008-01-29 at 23:40 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote: > >> du -sk|sort -n will report least used to most used. Ignore filesystems >> on other partitions and you are on your way to solving the problem. When >> you find which directory is the culprit cd to it and run the command >> again and again cd to the most used directory again until you find the >> problem. > > Considering that one of the partitions has 250 GB, that will take a long > time. Better use a command that will not consider any other partition. > > Like du -x, perhaps. > > -- Cheers, > Carlos E. R. >
I tried using that on my system and the du command seemed to ignore the -x. Perhaps du -x |sort -n|tail -10 would work better? -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
