Search/Analys for files in /, but skip /home

[Azyx]

Hi I wonder how I can search/ for files in the /-directory, but skip /home? My / is a partition and going to be full (20GB) and what see what's files that filled up the partition. Run 10.04LTS
Cheers

[steeldriver]

If /home really is on a separate partition, then iirc the -xdev option should prevent 'find' from descending into it


find / -xdev ...

OTOH if you need to exclude a path on the same partition, you can try prune


find / -path '/home' -prune -o ...

(needs the -o before your remaining tests because the default is to AND them)

[Azyx]

If /home really is on a separate partition, then iirc the -xdev option should prevent 'find' from descending into it


find / -xdev ...

OTOH if you need to exclude a path on the same partition, you can try prune


find / -path '/home' -prune -o ...

(needs the -o before your remaining tests because the default is to AND them)


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