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Old 01-17-2008, 07:02 AM
Ted Linnell
 
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Default Re: how to see what is taking place on /

"Regine dessoubret" <grdessoub@noos.fr> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have a / that is full and I want to find what files are fulling the
>mountpoint / .
>
>the server is HPUX 11.23 itanium
>
>Can somebody help me ?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Gilles
>

Could try cd /;du -kx|sort -nr|more

will show sizes of directories sorted in size order, as you could be
looking for not just large files , but also directories containing
lots of small files.

the x switch restricts the du to just the / file system, ignores mount
points.

Ted.
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