what is using disk space ?

SuperDude123 · 02-22-2009, 12:16 PM

Is their a way to list the largest folder or files to the smallest so that I can see what and where my disk space is being used?

Didier Spaier · 02-22-2009, 12:31 PM

You can use the 'find' command for that.

To know how-to use it: 'man find' and (even better) 'info find' (type that without the quotes).

Tip: if you are not used to the 'info' command and have Konqueror installed, you can type 'info:find' (without the quotes) as an URL to display it as web pages. Works for the manual too: type '#find' or 'man:find'.

repo · 02-22-2009, 12:37 PM

du -h

taylorkh · 02-22-2009, 12:44 PM

Ubuntu has a "Disk Usage Analyzer" utility installed by default. If you do not have something similar... the app is a part of gnome-utils. If you are running gnome you should be able to install it. If you are running kde I am sure there is a similar tool.

Ken

palisetty_suman · 02-22-2009, 02:26 PM

Yes there is a way to see the files or directories which r using maximam disk space.The sorted form is like this. The command is

du -a -b | sort -g

All the Best.

palisetty_suman · 02-22-2009, 02:43 PM

If you want only to see the top 10 files using maximan space, use head command

du -a -b | sort -g | head

repo · 02-22-2009, 02:59 PM

Quote:

du -a -b | sort -g | head

tail would be better, no?

palisetty_suman · 02-22-2009, 03:09 PM

Hi repo,

r u teasing me r just expressing ur view. If u r teasing, its not good but if u r expressing ur view, its fine.

Tail would be better if he wants the least space used files.

colucix · 02-22-2009, 03:16 PM

It's not just a point of view, it is a matter of fact: to see the largest files after having sorted them numerically, you have to extract the last part of the list using tail, instead of head:

Code:

du -a -b * | sort -g | tail

numerical sorting put them in increasing order, so that the last ones are the largest in size.

repo · 02-22-2009, 03:20 PM

Code:

repo@cannabis:~/doc/guides$ du -a -b | sort -g | head
43	./apache.cookbook.html/files/pixel.gif
55	./apache.cookbook.html/icons/0.gif
67	./apache.cookbook.html/icons/99.gif
69	./apache.cookbook.html/icons/90.gif
69	./apache.cookbook.html/icons/92.gif
71	./apache.cookbook.html/icons/91.gif
78	./apache.cookbook.html/arch_css.css
79	./apache.cookbook.html/icons/98.gif
81	./apache.cookbook.html/icons/95.gif
81	./apache.cookbook.html/icons/96.gif

Code:

repo@cannabis:~/doc/guides$ du -a -b | sort -g | tail
3843544	./The Linux Cookbook Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use.pdf
3856123	./E6844v1.0.pdf
3952640	./rute.html.tar
5674255	./linux-cursus_door_Koen_Wybo.pdf
10631201	./Linux Complete Command Reference.pdf
11243520	./Novell - SUSE Linux 10.0 Reference (2005).pdf
15806552	./Helix0307.pdf
16450896	./Belkin router.pdf
27049039	./Linux Bible 2008 Edition.pdf
108233348	.
repo@cannabis:~/doc/guides$

palisetty_suman · 02-22-2009, 03:48 PM

Sorry sir, you r exactly right. I accept my mistake.
If he still wants to use head we can add one more option to sort and can run

du -a -b |sort -g -r | head

Tinkster · 02-22-2009, 07:06 PM

And while we're at accepting corrective feed-back ... would it be
too much trouble for you to use English instead of SMSish? It just
ruins the feel of a very professional board.

Cheers,
Tink