topic Re: /home using the space 87%, Help needed. in Operating System - HP-UX

/home using the space 87%, Help needed...please.

redhat7012 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:27:46 GMT

Hi,

/dev/vg00/lvol5 1048576 911438 137138 87% /home

/home is using 87% space. Please help me how to know which Directory is using more space ?

How to find the File sizes in GB ?

HP-BOX version using is :

HP-UX B.11.00 U 9000/800 639379332 unlimited-user license

Regards,

Aparna.

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:39:10 GMT

Start by looking at all of the directories in /home.

# du -ks * | sort -n

This will show all directorires and their size in KB, sorted smallest to largest.

You can then find the largest directory, cd into it, and run the command again to see the size of those files / directories.

Dennis Handly — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:04:30 GMT

>How to find the file sizes in GB?

Bill has a bdfmegs script: