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To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system?
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Date: 02 Dec 2001 13:32:53 -0800
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I use a script something like this to find big files to delete.

    ## Good arguments: "/dir", "/mount-point -xdev"
    find $@ -size +2000 -ls | sort -rn +6  ## size in 512 blocks
    #NOTE: "-ls" is MUCH faster than "-exec ls -ld {} \;"

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