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11 questions linked to/from Linux utility for finding the largest files/directories
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How to find the largest directories or largest files? [duplicate]
Under Linux, I'm looking for a command to list the largest file and/or the largest directories under a directory.
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How do I get the size of a Linux or Mac OS X directory from the command-line? [duplicate]
What command do I use to find the size of all the files (recursively) in a Linux or Mac OS X directory?
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How to find files and directories that are taking too much space in Linux? [duplicate]
In Windows I could easily do this by navigating the directory tree and looking at the sizes. But in Linux, you need to run a command and, what's worse, it takes a lot of time:
$ du -sh /some/dir
I'm ...
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How to find largest folder? [duplicate]
How to find which folder in home directory is largest by the number of files? (excluding directories)
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Loop through folder with higher space usage in shell? [duplicate]
I would like to create an script where give me a report of which folders have the higher usage space and keep doing that until there's no folder anymore.
Today I do this manually, with:
sudo du -h --...
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How do I find the largest files and folders on a drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?
I am looking for a tool to tell me which files and folders are the largest as I need to do some cleanup.
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Finding what's using all the space in *nix
Which sequence of commands will tell me which files are the largest starting from a particular directory, including all sub directories? I want to know where all the space went.
Preferably just with ...
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Bash command for finding file extensions with largest size
I am trying to find file extensions with sorted by size in a directory and sub directory.
Something like this:
76K .pek ./Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files/demo.PRV/1d860051-77c9-4acb-973e-...
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Where is my diskspace?
Recently my disk space reached the 98% mark, and I tried to discover the reason for this. My system consists of two disks: a ssd /dev/sda and a storage hdd /dev/sdb.
My Linux is installed on /dev/...
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Mounted /home on a partition and GParted shows as if it isn't
I have 1 SSD (128 GB) and 1 HDD (1000 GB)
Yesterday, I used this tutorial to migrate my /home directory to a different partition
[LINK]:
help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/...
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Locate the process hogging my disk space
Guest OS: Windows 10 running on VMware Player.
Host OS: Ubuntu 14.04
Guest OS Disk: 20 GB used of 60 available. Dynamically allocated, single file.
Initial SSD available space: 160 GB.
I'm running a ...
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