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Old 08-18-2011
find large files in root filesystem and exclude others
I am wondering if there is a way to search for top 10 files in size in root filesystem but exclude all other mounts including nfs mounts .
For example excluded

/var
/boot
/app
/app1
/u01/
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Old 08-18-2011
-mount tells find not to descend into other filesystems.
Code:
find / -mount -type f | xargs du | sort -r -n -k 1 | head -n 10

Depending on your system and version of find, it may be possible to cut out the xargs du step by having find print the file sizes itself.
 
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