FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space

Often you need to find the files that are taking up the most disk space in order to free up space asap. This script can be run on the enitre filesystem as root or on a home directory to find the largest files.

Sample Output

18M     /usr/lib/openoffice.org/share/dict/ooo/th_en_US_v2.dat
20M     /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxul.so
26M     /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/icon-theme.cache
31M     /usr/lib/libgcj.so.7rh.0.0
32M     /var/lib/rpm/Packages
42M     /root/.mozilla/firefox/k7bvx7p5.default/urlclassifier3.sqlite
54M     /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/rt.jar
54M     /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
4.4G    /root/Desktop/CentOS_5.5_Final.iso
4.4G    /tmp/image.iso.I4RMLV

By: mxc

2010-11-09 13:45:11

cut du find sort tail xargs disk usage

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FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find / -type f -size +100M -exec du {} \; | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f 2

PhillipNordwall · 2010-11-09 18:34:49 4
FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space

This combines the above two command into one. Note that you can leave off the last two commands and simply run the command as "find /home/ -type f -exec du {} \; 2>/dev/null | sort -n | tail -n 10" The last two commands above just convert the output into human readable format.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find /home/ -type f -exec du {} \; 2>/dev/null | sort -n | tail -n 10 | xargs -n 1 du -h 2>/dev/null

mxc · 2010-11-10 07:24:17 4

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