How to find a file whick is consuming larger disk space in file system

lokeshpashine · #1 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008

Hello,

Can anybody please tell me the command to find out the filesystem or a file which is consuming larger disk space sing i want to find out the file and want to compress it

please help me out
any help would be appreciated

porter · #2 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008

Have fun with "du -k path..."

matrixmadhan · #3 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008

Is it a running process that is consuming more space ?

In such case identify the file; use lsof and kill the process which is dumping information into the file.

joeyg · #4 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008

> du -k * | sort -n | tail -10

That would tell you the ten largest files in the directory you are in.
Are you trying to find the largest files across the entire system?

madanmb · #5 (**permalink**) 04-03-2009

u can use

find /dirname -size +100000 -print

amitranjansahu · #6 (**permalink**) 04-04-2009

du -sk * | sort -nr | head -5

dennis.jacob · #7 (**permalink**) 04-04-2009

If u consider not only files in the current directory , but also the files under its sub directories, try the below one:

Code:

du -ka | sort -nrk1 | tail -10

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