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On 07/13/14 23:25, Dimitri Semitsoglou-Tsiapos wrote: |
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>On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:03:41 -0600 |
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>Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I'm trying to clean up my home directory by locating large disk |
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>> files. I used: find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk |
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>> '{ print $8 ": " $5 }' |
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>Take a look here regarding why you should never parse ls' output: |
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>http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs |
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>You can use ncdu or xdiskusage (both available in portage) to get more |
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>useful output. Both will allow you to track down large folders, not |
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>just single files (for example cache folders tend to hold a large |
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>amount of tiny files, which may collectively amount for a large chunk |
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>of your hard disk space). |
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Thanks folks, so in this case I guess: |
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find / -type f -size +20000k -exec du -h {} \; |
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is the winner (it does the trick). |
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Joseph |