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I would like to check the used size of all user login ID , I tried the command du -a , du -h , it seems can only find the current directory , If I would like to list all user ( the user list in /etc/passwd ) its used space , from largest to smallest , would advise what can I do ? thanks

The user directory is as below , therefore , it is not possible to run du -a from /home .
/home/EDP/user1
/home/EDP/user2
/home/EDP/user3
/home/ACC/user4
/home/ACC/user5
/home/ACC/user6
/home/MKT/user7
/home/MKT/user8
/home/MKT/user9

Dear ust3,
I have a few to questions pose in response first:-Most importantly, What have you tried so far?

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Regards,
Robin

Did you consider du -a --max=0 /home/*?

thanks reply ,

if use this method , it only check the size of /home directory but not the individual directory size of each user , is it ? thanks

hi,

du -k | sort -nr


hope it helps!

regards,
fspalero

Moderator's Comments:

edit by bakunin: please use CODE-tags when posting code or terminal output. Thank you.

Code:

cd /home
du -sk */* | sort -n