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Old 10-01-2007
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Originally Posted by sysgate View Post
Code:
du -h /home/users/ | sort -nr
will give you the file usage sorted, you just have to select the folder to query.
I wouldn't use -h in this case. The units will change depending on the size, so a 20MB file will be listed as being bigger than a 2GB one.