[Cialug] space by directory

[kristau]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:51 PM,  <murraymckee at wellsfargo.com> wrote:
> We're running Linux under IBM zVM and I have a problem.  One of our mount points is running low on space.  I can do "df -h" which tells me which mount point is short on space, but I can't seem to find a way to look at the directories under the mount point to figure out which one is using up more than its share of space.
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> I hoping there is something that I can cd to the mount point and it will list the space used by all of the directories underneath it, recursively.  I just want a list of the directories immediately below where I am, but with all the space used in that directory or any subdirectory under it.
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> Is there anything like that?

cd {mount point in question}
du -hsc *

This will give you a list of each subdirectory and its size in
human-readable format, plus a final sum total. It may take a while,
depending on the size of the filesystem.

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