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# 1  
Old 10-03-2012
Cannot tell what is filling up root (/) partition on Sol10
I can see that my root partition is down to single-digit GB free out of 134GB root partition on a larger server with many SAN, NFS, LOFS mounts etc mounted at the root (/) partition.

How can I specifically tell which directories is causing the most utilization in my root (/) partition?
# 2  
Old 10-03-2012
du -xhs /* to see what folders are taking the most space, then you can hunt deeper from there.

If it's logfiles, beware that deleting them will not make them go away, in fact it may make it so that you must reboot to free them from disk. Truncate them instead.
# 3  
Old 10-05-2012
Good suggestion for most Unix boxen, but unfortunately, the (-x) option doesn't respect ZFS file systems mounted-to-root using ZFS-config, whereas I am assuming the (-x) option reviews items in /etc/vfstab and doesn't traverse those systems.
# 4  
Old 10-05-2012
Post these command output:
Code:
du -dhs /*
zfs list -t all

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