Find big files

markvc · 12-05-2006, 02:53 AM

The 'df' command shows me my disk is full.
How can I find the biggest consumers/files?
I have tried "du -c" but this is not realy what I need.
OS = Red Hat EL 3.4

druuna · 12-05-2006, 03:26 AM

Hi,

du -sh * (start from /)

From there you can 'zoom in' on the bigger directories to finally find the biggest files.

Hope this helps.

syg00 · 12-05-2006, 03:55 AM

Code:

du / | sort -nr | less

- reverse sorted, so the worst offenders will be first. Will take a while, so be patient.

nx5000 · 12-05-2006, 05:57 AM

xdiskusage and baobab do it in graphical mode.

edit: btw, if in case you have kde, konqueror has an amazing filesize view mode, its quite useful

bigrigdriver · 12-05-2006, 07:14 AM

I found this little script at LinuxGazette.

#!/bin/bash
# diskhogs.sh - a script to find what's hogging the hard disk.
# relace /home/* with the directory to be searched.]

for dirname in `du -s /home/* | sort -m | cut -f2- | head -15`
do
echo ""
echo Big directory: $dirname
echo 15 largest files in that directory are:
find $dirname -type f -printf "%kk %p \n" | sort -m | head -15
done
exit 0