How to get "du -sk *" to work sensibly

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 15:25 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:05:29AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 10:36 -0600, Jon Stanley wrote:
> > > On 12/28/07, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > So how can I get an idea of the size of the various directories on my
> > > > root file system?  There seems no easy way.
> > > 
> > > Something like du -xk --max-depth=1 / would work.
> > What is wrong with du -s * from /
> > 
> It takes an infinite (well, impossibly long) amount of time when it
> hits my remotely mounted NAS server.  It also tells me the space used
> on mounts which isn't very useful if I'm trying to work out what's
> using all the space on my root disk.
> 
> I want a tool to tell me what's using all the space on one specific
> volume/partition.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Green
> 
then at / run: du -s {list of directories you want to check}
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