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Old 09-22-2008
Need help with space issue
Ok,

I have a drive on my unix system that looks like this:

/dev/hd4 0.38 0.00 100% 4316 3% /

I can't find any file on that drive that would account for the 400MB. How can I thoroughly find the culprit of this space? I've done ls -al, but don't see anything that would account for all the space.
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Old 09-22-2008
Try du
Use du with a switch to specify not to cross fs boundaries. On Solaris, command would be something like 'du -d / | sort -n' to find out where the big files in / were at. Then you have to go manually look at the directories. I think the -d switch to du changes across different OS's, but there will likely be something similar -- have a look at the man/info page on your OS for du.
 
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