Files space in / partition

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March 22nd, 2012, 08:30 AM

harshajd

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Files space in / partition

Hi all,

I have a question on how to find out the files consuming high memory in the / partition. Have tried with other some of the

Code:

find / -name "*" -type f -xdev -ls | sort -nr +6 | head -20

Code:

find / -type f -ls | sort -k 7 -r -n | head -10

but I end up with the largest files in entire system rather than only for root.

Thanks!!

March 22nd, 2012, 08:24 PM

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Take a look at the du command

Or even better, jdiskreport works fine on linux as long as you have java. With it you get a nice clickable pie chart of disk space usage.

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March 23rd, 2012, 06:24 AM

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I usually use du from the cli or Baobab from my desktop. Baobab is the standard Gnome 2 utility under System Tools > Disk Usage Analyzer - I've never used jdiskreport, but from what I can tell Baobab gives the same but with a little more detail on the clickable chart. Baobab also allows you to scan remote filesystems via ssh, ftp or similar. I'm not sure if jdiskreport does this or not, but jdiskreport does run on Windows and I'm not sure if Baobab does that or not.

March 23rd, 2012, 02:41 PM

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Thanks All!!

I tried using du, but I am unable to sort it according to the size of the file. Can you help me with this

March 23rd, 2012, 03:00 PM

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Simpler to just do a:

Code:

ls -hlrS /

The 'S' flag sorts by file size

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March 23rd, 2012, 10:23 PM

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In fedora 15 you'd need ls -hlRS

on my system du puts the size output in the 1st column, you can just pipe the output to sort

March 25th, 2012, 07:00 AM

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Try:

Code:

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

For the du command the -x prevents multiple filesystems being reported on, the -a causes files to be reported, the -S stops sub-directory sizes being included in the reporting and the -k forces all sizes to be in KB, to make sorting easier.

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Files space in / partition

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