Summary: Determining who consumes disk space

From: Andreas Hoeschler (ahoesch@smartsoft.de)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 08:34:23 EDT


Dear managers,

thanks for the overwhelming response again. Most suggested to use

cd /
du -sk * | sort -n

to get a sorted list of directories with the disk usage printed in
kBytes. Well, this raises a question. I got the following response.

0 net
0 vol
1 bin
1 createAccounts
1 export
1 fastboot
1 lib
1 log
1 mnt
1 prefs_v3
8 lost+found
9 devices
9 xfn
13 GNUstep
25 CIFS
301 dev
544 tmp
752 nohup.out
1227 BlobService
2739 etc
7901 sbin
20672 core
20726 kernel
27250 platform
44082 Library
83121 Stuff
121388 ApplicationsNew
155857 Applications
255645 var
1988318 usr
2283770 home
5328118 opt
7010699 proc

17671273 snap

snap is a mounted dir from an external nfs server, so it does not
count. Summing the output makes me think that about 16 GBytes are in
use. By the way, what is stored in /proc? I have a 40 GByte hard disk
and

bash-2.03# df -b
Filesystem avail
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 9185298
/proc 0
fd 0
mnttab 0
swap 1421736
swap 1421736

reports that only 9 GBytes are still available. Where are the remaining
15 - 20 GBytes? Any ideas or am I misinterpreting the figures?

Regards,

    Andreas
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