Directory using the most disk space

Net Llama! netllama
Mon Dec 27 22:23:56 PST 2004


On 12/27/2004 07:21 PM, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I have a filesystem that is about 90% full, and I know that an
> application is probably dumping a lot of log data into a directory. I
> don't own the server or the directory, but I do have sudo access.
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> This is probably a stupid question, but is there a command for locating
> the directory taking up the most disk space?

du -m /

shows results in MB.


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