[Cialug] space by directory

David Bierce david at bierce.org
Wed Sep 5 13:59:27 CDT 2012


I've found useful for a quick look at directories without much depth. 

du -h --max-depth=1


On Sep 5, 2012, at 1:51 PM, <murraymckee at wellsfargo.com> <murraymckee at wellsfargo.com> wrote:

> We're running Linux under IBM zVM and I have a problem.  One of our mount points is running low on space.  I can do "df -h" which tells me which mount point is short on space, but I can't seem to find a way to look at the directories under the mount point to figure out which one is using up more than its share of space.
> 
> I hoping there is something that I can cd to the mount point and it will list the space used by all of the directories underneath it, recursively.  I just want a list of the directories immediately below where I am, but with all the space used in that directory or any subdirectory under it.  
> 
> Is there anything like that?
> 
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