[Cialug] space by directory

Todd Walton tdwalton at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 19:55:55 CDT 2012


On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:51 PM,  <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.

Playing Hunt the Disk Hog
          http://oreilly.com/pub/h/15

> 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.

How about du -sh?

--
Todd


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