Find where diskspace is being used up most

Is there a method or utility that I can use from the shell to scan my disk
partition and report where the largest files/directories are located? I
have only got about 300MB left on my disk but I dont know where the space is
being used up.

Thanks
Allan

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Allan Bruce wrote:
> Is there a method or utility that I can use from the shell to scan my disk
> partition and report where the largest files/directories are located? I
> have only got about 300MB left on my disk but I dont know where the space is
> being used up.

Try

du -a / | sort -nr | head -10

which will give the 10 largest files and directories (sorted in descending order
of size), or

du / | sort -nr | head -10

which will give the 10 largest directories (sorted in descending order of size) only



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Lew Pitcher
IT Specialist, Enterprise Data Systems,
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')
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On 2006-01-09, Allan Bruce <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Is there a method or utility that I can use from the shell to scan my disk
> partition and report where the largest files/directories are located? I
> have only got about 300MB left on my disk but I dont know where the space is
> being used up.

df will tell you which partition is most used, then you can use
ds to scan directory-per-directory.

Davide

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Windows 2000 has 3 of 'em.
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Allan Bruce wrote:
> Is there a method or utility that I can use from the shell to scan my disk
> partition and report where the largest files/directories are located? I
> have only got about 300MB left on my disk but I dont know where the space is
> being used up.
>
> Thanks
> Allan
>
>

Check 'man du'.

On 01/09/06 14:11, Allan Bruce wrote:
> Is there a method or utility that I can use from the shell to scan my disk
> partition and report where the largest files/directories are located? I
> have only got about 300MB left on my disk but I dont know where the space is
> being used up.


$ man du

Ciao
Giovanni
--
A computer is like an air conditioner,
it stops working when you open Windows.
Registered Linux user #337974 <http://counter.li.org/>

On 2006-01-09, Davide Bianchi <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> ds to scan directory-per-directory.

s/ds/du/

Davide

--
They say never to buy a "0" release of software.
Windows 2000 has 3 of 'em.
-- A .sig spotted on an anti-Microsoft mailing list

Allan Bruce wrote:
> Is there a method or utility that I can use from the shell to scan my disk
> partition and report where the largest files/directories are located? I
> have only got about 300MB left on my disk but I dont know where the space is
> being used up.
>
> Thanks
> Allan
>
>
For a GUI tool, I rather like jdiskreport, a free download from
www.jgoodies.com, provided to prove by demonstration that java
applications CAN look good.

Steve