Re: disk usage checking

[Keith Mastin <kmastin beechtree ca>]

>Hi there,
>Recently, my server's disk usage grows very fast, do you know how to check the
>users' file system size? Under /home directory, there are 20 subdirectories,
>over 5,000 user accounts are assigned to those subdirectories. How to check
>the user's filesystem size quickly so that I can ask users to delete some of
>their files? The Operating System is RedHat 7.2.

In this case, I think that you mightr want to consider using disk quotas 
and just informing the users that they now have quota limits on space. Let 
them decide what to dump