Sorry, perhaps I'm missing something in your reply..

I'm already running du at intervals to diff the output and look for
growing files/directory. The problem is, despite df reporting that
I've lost 100s of MB of space , du doesn't show any appreciable
difference.

James

On Nov 17, 10:09 pm, "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:34 PM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm using du -b --max-depth 3 /* as the command - could this be hiding
> > something, or is there some other way for me to get disk usage
> > information?
>
> Try this:
>
> $ du -m --max-depth 4 / | sort -n | tail
>
> If it's a steady increase, my guess would be that it's the log files.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert

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