[CentOS] Unable to find the used space

Mon Jun 29 20:23:11 UTC 2020
Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Pete Biggs wrote:

>
>>
>> # du -sh /*
>
> Use 'du -xh --max-depth=1 /' it will clean up your output and show you
> only things on the root partition.

Note the reason for -x .
-x is equivalent to --one-file-system .
It says that when searching from a directory,
include only descendants in the same filesystem.

Though rather unlikely, it is possible that none of /*
are in the same filesystem as / ,
hence the need for / rather than /* .

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