Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:38:05 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system? Message-ID: <15370.55165.402323.615518@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <51108400@toto.iv>
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Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> types: > I see that there are lots of commands that tell me various things about the > filesystems I have mounted and what is on them, but what is the best command or > commands to use in order to locate the parts of the file hierarchy that are > taking up the most disk space? For example, I have 1.3 GB in use on the /usr > filesystem; how can I find out which directories are using the most space > (mainly with an eye to deleting stuff that doesn't really need to be there)? du. For your specific example, I'd recommend "du -ax | sort -rn > /tmp/usr.space" to get a list of all the files and directories on /usr, sorted by size. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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