Or use "du" and then sort it numerically; eg,
du / | sort -n
Prints the largest directories, cumulatively. The "xdu" program will
show it graphically.
(find . -follow -type f -size +100k !* -exec du {} \;) | sort -r -n >
big-files
produces a noice sorted list of the biggest files;
Civileme wrote:
>
> Cecil Watson wrote:
> >
> > Help! Some how something seems to be eating up space on my hard drive!
> > I won't be able to get to the system till Monday. I have OpenSSH
> > access, but cannot find anything out of place? Anyone got any ideas? I
> > know I had plenty of room available on it?! Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Cecil
>
> For the fine-grained investigation
>
> ls -a -l -R -H (target directory) | grep ./ -A 1 | lpr
>
> My guess is you will find
>
> ~/.netscape/cache/00
> ~/.netscape/cache/01
> *
> *
> *
> ~/.netscape/cache/1F
>
> with each about 2-4Mb in them, still technically under the
> default 5000kb limit set for the cache size, but with 30 or more
> subdirectories in the cache each approaching that limit.
>
> The "cure" I use is a script
> #-----------cachebash begins below with the line beginning with
> #! being the first line in the file
>
> #!/bin/sh
> for i in `sed s/:/ / /etc/passwd | gawk /^[a-z]/ print $1`
> do
> if [ -d /home/$i/.netscape ] then
> rm -R -f /home/$i/.netscape/cache
> fi
> done
> rm -R -f /root/.netscape/cache
>
> #---------End of script
>
> the sed changes the colons in /etc/passwd lines to a single space
> so gawk can see them as fields and the print $1 lists all users.
> Then the if checks if the user has a netscape cache and deletes
> it and all its subdirectories if so. The last line isn't in my
> /root/cachebash script because I don't netscape as root, but is
> included here for those who might do so inadvertantly. The whole
> script is stored as /root/cachebash and is run weekdays at 16:01
> by cron (running as root, obviously).
>
> I have seen results up to the removal of 9000 or more files.
>
> And soon, if my tests on Konqueror continue to produce the
> results I have seen thus far, this script won't be necessary,
> because I won't be using netscape. At one time I admired
> Netscape and now when it goes off my system I won't shed a tear.
>
> Civileme
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