On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 1:23 PM Michael Hennebry < hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
Though rather unlikely, it is possible that none of /* are in the same filesystem as / , hence the need for / rather than /* .
as /dev, /proc, and /sys are mounted on nearly every linux system, and those are places you don't want du poking around, you do need to avoid that.