Carlos E. R. wrote:
If you want to know where your harddisk space is gone, try "du -hsx /*", then repeat for individual directories to find more details.
The "-x" option does not work, it is ignored.
Did you open a bugreport with whoever it is that maintains core-utils? (I wasn't sure we had established for a fact that '-x' doesn't work).
There was a thread on it last week, on which you participated.
I know, I know - and like I said, I wasn't sure we had established for a _fact_ that '-x' doesn't work (which to me = it has a bug).
The command "du -hsx /*" does not skip "differenf filesystems" mounted at the root, because the * is expanded by the shell. The end result is that it lists the size of all partitions. It is not a bug, but it doesn't work.
Haha, how do you distinguish between "it doesn't work" and "it's a bug"? I think '-x' should skip mounted filesystems whether they're explicitly specified or just discovered whilst traversing the filesystem. The man page doesn't say much about it, so it doesn't sound like "works as designed" to me. /Per Jessen, Zürich (2.18 °C) -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Let us analyse your spam- and virus-threat - up to 2 months for free.