Re: [REDHAT] df usage

[David Kramer <david thekramers net>]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Shawn Owens wrote:

> What is the best way of finding out (EXACTLY) what is taking up all my disk
> space.  Currently my HD is 100% full but when doing a df -a, I get very
> little useful information.

Try using du (disk usage).  The find command someone else mentioned is a
good way to find very large files, but this will give you the directory
tree and each node's size.

At first blush, look at /tmp, /var/log, and /var/spool.  Those are the
usual suspects.

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