?* to the parameters would fit the needs : sudo du -csh.
That means all directory names starting with a dot are not passed to the du command and their size is not taken into account. * expands to all names starting with anything but a dot (. Can anyone explain this so I can create some space? I've deleted the Jenkins workspaces from the web frontend but still see this result. However, when I enter the jenkins dir to see which folder is consuming most of this 2.3GB, there are some strange results: $ sudo du -csh *Ġ Connection Activity monitoring to slaves.logĤ.0K Ĥ.0K Ĥ.0K Ĥ.0K įrom 2.3GB to 209M. Following this I can see the culprit is /var/lib/jenkins 52K alternatives Jenkins has stopped building and I can see from df: