determining disk hog

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:08:50PM -0700, Jim wrote:
/_I have a 23 gig partition and I am not sure what is consuming the disk I
/_have about 3 gigs free. I know that there is about 10 gigs of data that
/_I know of otherwise I am not sure what is consuming it.
/_
/_What is the best way to get a top down look to see what is chewing up
/_all of the disk space.
/_

I always start at the top and do something like "du -sh *"
Then work my way down deeper.