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Old 06-12-2007
List File size

Hello all,
I have a directory filling up. I need to determine the size of the files in the directory. How do I do that, what command should I run when I am in the directory?

Next question, can I expand the partition size?
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Old 06-12-2007
du -k -a | sort -n

Or

find . -type f | xargs du -k | sort -n
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Old 06-12-2007
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Originally Posted by komputersman
Next question, can I expand the partition size?
What platform are you on?

What is your filesystem?

Do you have unallocated disk space?
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Old 06-12-2007
Sorry, Solaris 8.

And I am not positive about unallocated disk space yet. I am taking over for someone that put this server together and I am unsure the configuration.
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Old 06-12-2007
Well, there is growfs(1M) but whether you can use it or not depends on your disk layout. Actually, I don't know if growfs is even available on Solaris 8 Smilie
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Old 06-13-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by komputersman
Hello all,
I have a directory filling up. I need to determine the size of the files in the directory. How do I do that, what command should I run when I am in the directory?
List files from smallest to largest:
Code:
ls -l /path/to/dir | sort -nk5

Linux:
Code:
du -csh /path/to/dir/*

More General:
Code:
du -sk /path/to/dir/*

To clean up, you'll probably use find, maybe something like -
Code:
find /path/to/dir -type f -mtime +31 -exec rm -f {} \; -ls
find /path/to/dir -type f -mtime +10 -exec gzip -f {} \; -ls

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Old 06-13-2007
komputersman,

I found this sticky on this forum, think you might find it useful:
http://unix.com/showthread.php?t=25840
 
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