Find out the maximum growing file in a mount

raman1605 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-30-2007

I need to find the file that is growing in the mount. Say yesterday the utilised space was 95% but today that is 96%. How do i find the file that is growing in size. Have checked the same with du/df options but was not able to find much.

Please suggest the best possible option.

sysgate · #2 (**permalink**) 10-01-2007

Code:

du -h /home/users/ | sort -nr

will give you the file usage sorted, you just have to select the folder to query.

Cameron · #3 (**permalink**) 10-01-2007

Under HP-UX-11.23:

Code:

du -sk /mnt/* | sort -nr

reborg · #4 (**permalink**) 10-01-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by sysgate

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.

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