Re: finding large files

a1b3r7a_lady_at_salmahayeksknockers.edu
Date: 06/24/03


Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:21:59 GMT

R.A. Duerinck <rdk@zeelandnet.nl> wrote:

> I keep having problems with my filesystem, I often run out of diskspace. I
> want to know if its possible to find "large" files on my filesystem.

Search for 1MB+ files w/in a particular filesystem, and list in order from
smallest to biggest:

find / -xdev -size +2000 -exec ls -s {} \; |sort -n

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