How to list file space usage estimate (du), SPECIFIED BY RANGE

tsilok · 10-23-2005, 10:26 PM

Morning,

My server disk storage is running out. I know I can see all sub dir disk usage using du -h. But the outcome of this command is too lengthy because there are a lot of subdir under my parent dir.

I just want to specifically list all subdir under a dir, with dir size greater than 5M, maybe. Is this possible?

Thx,
Tsi Lok

solveit · 10-24-2005, 12:52 AM

du -kh | sort -nr | less

J.W. · 10-24-2005, 01:22 AM

du -h --max-depth=1

koyi · 10-24-2005, 02:33 AM

1. cd into the dir.
2. du -sh *

This doesn't show hidden files, so
du -sh .*
to show them. Notice the dot(.)?

tsilok · 10-24-2005, 04:05 AM

Dear all,

Thx for the solutions but all are still unable to allow me to filter the outcome by size. Anyway, your solutions have eased my work.

Thx a bunch =)

blindcoder · 10-24-2005, 05:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by tsilok

I just want to specifically list all subdir under a dir, with dir size greater than 5M, maybe. Is this possible?

This should do the trick:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
min=$(( 1024*1024*5 )) # this is 5 MB
du -sb "$@" | while read size path ; do
        [ ${size} -gt ${min} ] && echo -e "${size}\t${path}"
done

Put this into a file called - for example - sizeme.sh, make it executable with chmod +x sizeme.sh and call it like this:

Code:

sizeme.sh /home/foo/*

HTH,
Benjamin

tsilok · 10-24-2005, 05:56 AM

Thx Benji =)
Yipe, just wat I needed!