How to find big files on the disk?

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10-17-2010, 05:52 AM	#1
hadimotamedi Member Registered: Aug 2009 Posts: 228 Rep:	How to find big files on the disk? Dear All How can I find big files on the my Linux disk with say more than 500MB in size? Thank you

10-17-2010, 06:18 AM	#2
david1941 Member Registered: May 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO Distribution: CentOS7 Posts: 267 Rep:	find / -size +500M

10-17-2010, 06:38 AM	#3
hadimotamedi Member Registered: Aug 2009 Posts: 228 Original Poster Rep:	I modified it as : #find / -type f -size +500M -ls And it was successful . Thank you

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