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

[John Summerfield]

Arun Vatsil wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> but "du -xk --max-depth=1 /" will not include a file say
> "/home/user1/movies/virumandi.avi" in its calculation of the disk usage of /
> . Is that ok?
>
If it's not part of the root fs, that's exactly what the OP wants. Try this:
sudo du -m --max-depth=2 / | sort -n

You will find where the space in your root filesystem's gone. I do this 
fairly regularly, whenever I find I'm running out of space. Most 
recently it was caused by networkmangler writing some gigglebytes of logs.



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