File system bafflement

[R Kimber]

On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:38:01 -0400
Rashkae wrote:

> you can run this command to see which directories are taking up all the 
> space:
> 
> cd /
> 
> sudo du -shx *

This gives:-

9.7M    bin
93M     boot
12K     dev
78M     etc
18G     home
0       initrd.img
0       initrd.img.old
705M    lib
3.5M    lib32
4.0K    lib64
16K     lost+found
16K     media
4.0K    mnt
8.0K    mount
136M    opt
du: cannot access ‘proc/28846/task/28846/fd/4’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘proc/28846/task/28846/fdinfo/4’: No such file or
directory du: cannot access ‘proc/28846/fd/4’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘proc/28846/fdinfo/4’: No such file or directory
0       proc
51M     root
2.0M    run
12M     sbin
4.0K    srv
0       sys
204K    tmp
7.9G    usr
4.2G    var
0       vmlinuz
0       vmlinuz.old
4.0K    webmin-setup.out

But as I said /usr, /var, /tmp, /home, /usr/local are all on separate
patitions.

- Richard.
-- 
Richard Kimber