A useful command I once knew.... 1

[MethodMan1972]

Hi All, a while back, I used a command to show me the filesystem tree, and which files under the location were using the most disk space. It was something like...

ls -l | du -sk | sort

Well along those lines anyways...

and the output was something like..

/var/bigfile1 <big number>
/var/bigfile2 <not as big number>

etc...

Can anyone provide the correct command and parameters please?

Many thanks

 

[andy61]

For the pwd use du -sk *|sort -rn - this will include the sizes of any directories.
To traverse the filesystem for a list of large files try
find . -xdev -ls|sort -rn +6

 

[MethodMan1972]

Thats the one!.. Thanks!