Comments on: Linux – Find large directories

By: Samuel Huckins

Samuel Huckins — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:14:04 +0000

Great post, very helpful! I pushed this to its logical conclusion and made what I’ve found to be a useful alias:

alias largedirs=”sudo du -h $PWD 2>&1 | grep -v ‘cannot access’ | grep ^[1-9]*G | sort -rn”

This searches in the current directory for dirs 1GB or more in size and filters out error messages related to process files.

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By: Jeremy Brooks

Jeremy Brooks — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:18:19 +0000

exactly what I was looking for… Didn’t actually know there was a -h option for du.

Thanks!

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By: reubrelop

reubrelop — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:12:34 +0000

Thnx very interesting.

By: werutzb

werutzb — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:33:31 +0000

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By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:29:07 +0000

emme,

Good point and thanks for sharing another way!

Josh

By: emme

emme — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:08:25 +0000

You should try with find:
# find / -type d -size +1G

By: emme

emme — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:06:51 +0000

your idea is good, but it would skip a directory that is 1 TB large

Ciao,

Emme

By: Alex Robar

Alex Robar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:12:38 +0000

Thanks for this! I was looking for an easy way to pick out the largest directories to see where all my space had gone. Glad I found this post.