2007 May 08 - Tue

Determiniing Space Used in SubDirectories

When space is getting tight, one has to find out where the space is being used. Sometimes it suffices to find where the most accumulation is and cleaning that up. To find that accumulation, use the du command:

 du -h -x  --max-depth=1

The -h turns the result into human readable form, the -x excludes files on a different file system (for when you have a mount somewhere in the structure), and the --max-depth performs a summarizes the results of the recursive search through the structure.