Davidx' logs » davidx http://davidx.org words i have used Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:17:06 +0000 en hourly 1 Where’s all that disk space being used? http://davidx.org/2008/11/14/wheres-all-that-disk-space-being-used/ http://davidx.org/2008/11/14/wheres-all-that-disk-space-being-used/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:15:04 +0000 davidx http://davidx.org/log/2008/11/14/wheres-all-that-disk-space-being-used/ Sometimes there are systems that seems to get clogged full of disk space and it may be unapparant where the space is being used.
I put together a couple commands to get a sense of the disk consumption.

Just copy and paste these into your terminal:

echo "Files bigger than 100Mb:"
find / -size +100000000c -ls |awk '{print $7" "$11}' |sort -rn |awk '{print $2}'|xargs du -sh

echo "Top 20 largest directories"
du -sm /*/* --exclude=/proc/* |sort -rn |head -20 |awk '{print $2}' |xargs du -sh

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