Directory using the most disk space

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 27 December 2004 10:21 pm, someone claiming to be Chong Yu Meng 
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> This is probably a stupid question, but is there a command for locating
> the directory taking up the most disk space?
>

du

# du -s /*
will give the disk usage for all directories under /

'man du'

HTH, 
Tim

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