an awful problem, disc space is disappearing

[Tony Arnold]

chrisl at xp.etowns.net wrote:
> I like to use this command:
> 
> ls -d */ | xargs du -hsx
> 
> I run this in the root directory and it will show me the size of each 
> directory.

cd /
du -shx *

works just as well, and is less typing!

Regards,
Tony.
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