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Exclude Directories for Disk Usage (du)

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I sometimes want to omit directories from my disk usage (du -sh *) checks. This includes virtual files systems such as proc / dev and also mounts to other filesystems (data in the example below). This is what works for me: du –exclude={proc,sys,dev,data} -sh * The equals sign appears to be optional and worked both… Read more »