This post will be helpful for finding the top largest files in linux box. du & find commands are used to find the top largest files...
This post will be helpful for finding the top largest files in linux box.
du & find commands are used to find the top largest files.
First CD to the desired location and type the below command in terminal for finding the largest files
Command : du -hs * | sort -rh
where
-h is for displaying the output in human readable form
-s is for displaying the total
-r is for sort values in reverse
[root@host-7-81 /]# du -hs * | sort -rh
3.7G usr
153M var
109M boot
29M etc
4.7M run
52K root
48K tmp
12K home
0 sys
0 srv
0 sbin
0 proc
0 opt
0 mnt
0 media
0 lib64
0 lib
0 dev
0 bin
Command : find . -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -rh | head -n 5
[root@host-7-81 /]# find . -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -rh | head -n 5
115M ./usr/share/icons/HighContrast/icon-theme.cache
102M ./usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
68M ./usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache
66M ./var/lib/rpm/Packages
65M ./usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.65-2.5.1.2.el7_0.x86_64/jre/lib/rt.jar
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