SUMMARY: / filesystem filling up with dups

From: Jed Dobson (jed@megalink.net)
Date: Sat Apr 03 1999 - 09:14:54 CST


Thanks to all:

Richard Lacroix <Richard.Lacroix@sisca.com>
Bill Fenwick <bill@splotch.digicomp.com
Richard Smith <rc.smith@ibm.net>
Franczyk, Gary <gfranczyk@carbomedics.com>
Sullivan, John <jsullivan@netgenics.com>
Douglas Palmer <palmer@nyed.uscourts.gov
Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>
foster@bial1.ucsd.edu
Thomas Lester <tlester@spain.iakom.com>
Cooke, Earl R. <COOKEEA@mail.northgrum.com>
Todd Jensen <jensen@erim-int.com
Scott D. Yelich <scott@scottyelich.com>
Michael Wang <mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com>
Robert Perez <rperez@sprintparanet.com>
Vince Merrell <vinnym@dial.pipex.com>

The problem was I was using * and then specifying
filesystems explicitly.
The following was reported as the best way to
show / filesystem usage:

cd /
du -sk *

The problems was, BTW a newserver with a large
history file on the / filesystem.

-jed



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