linux server command question....
 

is there a command that will show the directory on a server that is using the most HD space. there is about 30-40gigs used up somewhere on my server that is not apart of my websites.

man find
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man du
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du

will take a bit to run

du | sort -nr | head

off top of my head.. there's probably a better way to do it

thanks i ended up using the du command

cd /
du -sh *

i found out mysql has like 43gb of nmx-bin.001-146 files. i'm thinking its a backup of all the databases on the server everyday dating back to feb.

du -ks `ls`

Those are logs, either just general logs or replication logs. You can purge them:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/PU...STER_LOGS.html