Top usage of files

[jaiganeshmca]

Hello,

I have plenty of files lying in different partitions which is occupying my disk space. How do i find out the top 10 files ( top usage) ? What is the command to search this ?

Note : I am using Redhat Linux.

[clowenstein]

Hello,

I have plenty of files lying in different partitions which is occupying my disk space. How do i find out the top 10 files ( top usage) ? What is the command to search this ?

Note : I am using Redhat Linux.

Easier to do this one partition at a time. Also you probably need root privileges to see all the files.


sudo sh -c "find /partition -type f -exec du -s {} + | sort -nr | head -10"

Explanation:
sudo # acquire root privileges
sh -c # execute a command string
find /partition -type f # look for files starting at /partition
exec du -s {} + # compute disk utilization for each file found
sort -nr # sort numerically, largest first
head -10 # show 10 leading results

[clowenstein]

That's a very interesting topic. But this field is still new to me. It will be grateful if you give me some
more information about it. Thanks in advance.

Just what kind of information do you need? There are many books of several hundred pages each full of Linux information. But I can't read your mind to determine what you mean by "more information".

carl

[peter]

That's a very interesting topic. But this field is still new to me. It will be grateful if you give me some
more information about it. Thanks in advance.

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