Peter Kjellström wrote: > > As an addition to what others have already said. You'll also miss > things "hidden under mounts". That is, if you had 5G in /var/log on the > root file system and then mounted a different device on /var/log, then > that 5G would still be there but invisible. What I usually do in cases like this, is to bind mount root to somewhere else - and then run 'du' or whatever using the bind mount point - this will show up any 'hidden under mounts' data - something like: mkdir /var/run/mnt mount --bind / /var/run/mnt du -sh /var/run/mnt/* James Pearson