On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 1:23 PM Michael Hennebry < hennebry at 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. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz