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Date: 2008sep27
OS: Linux

Q.  My root partition is nearly full how can I tell what's taking up the root?
If I do "du /" I get things that are not in the root partition

A.  I use this small script (called root_du) to filter out directories that
are not in the root partition:

	#!/bin/sh

	DISK=`df / | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'`

	for I in /*; do
		if df $I | grep -q $DISK; then
			du -sh $I
		fi
	done

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