Directory using the most disk space

[Matthew Carpenter]

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When I don't have kdirstat installed (runs over X as well),
I always prefer: "du -sx <basedir>/* | sort -n"

Spits out dirs/files nicely sorted by usage and sticks the big ones at
the bottom.

# du -sx  /backup/* | sort -n
0       /backup/DAILY-system.1.tar.gz
0       /backup/DAILY-system.2.tar.gz
0       /backup/MONTHLY-system.log
0       /backup/MONTHLY-system.tar.gz
<SNIP>
3115952 /backup/WEEKLY-data.1.tar.gz
3149309 /backup/WEEKLY-data.tar.gz
3372525 /backup/MOVIES
7363360 /backup/MONTHLY-data.tar.gz
8272727 /backup/MONTHLY-data.1.tar.gz
9814996 /backup/gandalf-Tue Jul  8 23:55:56 EDT 2003.tar.gz
11127836        /backup/WinXP.hda2.dd
15895135        /backup/MONTHLY-data
16016021        /backup/MONTHLY-data.2.tar.gz
33934343        /backup/anonftp


Net Llama! wrote:
| On 12/27/2004 07:21 PM, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
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|> Hi all,
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|> I have a filesystem that is about 90% full, and I know that an
|> application is probably dumping a lot of log data into a directory. I
|> don't own the server or the directory, but I do have sudo access.
|>
|> This is probably a stupid question, but is there a command for locating
|> the directory taking up the most disk space?
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| du -m /
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| shows results in MB.
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