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Old 12-17-2008
How to trace the big files causing high disk usage

Hi All,

One very urgent issue and I need your help.

I have two V490 servers installed with Sun Solaris 10.

I have traced out that the disk usage is running out of space for both the servers. Currently the /dev/md/dsk/d10 device is 91% in one server and another is 56% and it is increasing very rapidly. In the last 3 days both of them has been increase 8-10%.

/ partition is mounted on the /dev/md/dsk/d10.


I want to trace out the files which are unnecessarily blocking the disk usage.

How can I do it?

Thanks in Advance

Nilanjan
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Old 12-17-2008
I am certain that there are other ways/tools to perform this, but a quick way:
#du -k / | sort -n | tail -10

This will list the 10 largest files.

You may want to check the man page of the find command, but you can also try:
#find / -size +10000000c -xdev

this will list anything over 10 Meg.

If this is a cronic Smilie problem, then consider cron as an option and have one of these tools run and spit that output to file.
 
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