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Majid Alfifi
– Majid Alfifi

2017-02-18 03:06:11 +00:00
Commented Feb 18, 2017 at 3:06
@MajidAlfifi, did you run it as root and tell it start from /? If I remember correct, by default it only analyzes the user's home directory.

Kevin
– Kevin

2017-02-20 19:37:02 +00:00
Commented Feb 20, 2017 at 19:37
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KDirStat will show the mount point as such, and only using the size of 1 inode when the shadowing device is mounted. It will show the real used space if the device is unmounted. Same results, only graphical, as du.

Chindraba
– Chindraba

2017-02-20 21:42:57 +00:00
Commented Feb 20, 2017 at 21:42
How about: du -ak | sort -n

Ed Neville
– Ed Neville

2017-02-22 19:20:30 +00:00
Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 19:20

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