Alex Samad wrote:
> > > I should also have said that the way to do what you wanted was to
> > avoid the shell wildcard and simply specifying /.
> > 
> >   du -s -x /

And I realized that I got that wrong only after I had sent it.  :-(
Mike Stone was of course correct with his suggestion:

  du --max-depth=1 -x /

> what started my problem was I had / hit 100% and I wanted to find
> out where the problem was, I could have sworn I had use /* -s
> before, but it has been a while since that has happen, maybe i used
> --max-depth which I have used previously

[drift...]

A blatent plug for xdu here.  A nice visualization tool.

  du --max-depth=1 -x -k / | xdu

Bob


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