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| dkoleary@attbi.com wrote: >R.A. Duerinck <rdk@zeelandnet.nl> wrote: > >> I keep having problems with my filesystem, I often run out of diskspace. I >> want to know if its possible to find "large" files on my filesystem. > >My favorite: > >find /startdir -xdev -type f -print | xargs ls -ld | sort -rn -k 5 > >Gives you all the files in the filesystem sorted in reverse order by size; >largest at the top. > >HTH; > >Doug > I like cd /filesystem_in_question du -kx|sort -rn|more gives size of directories, largest first. large directories can contain either large files or large numbers of small files. The problem may be some thing writing a lot of small files. Regards, Ted. ================================================== ============ | Ted Linnell <edlinnell@acslink.net.au> | | | | Nunawading, Victoria , Australia | ================================================== ============ |