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Old 01-04-2008
How to find a file whick is consuming larger disk space in file system

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
 

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