Comments on: Find large files in multiple directories http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/06/15/find-large-files-in-multiple-directories/ Ramblings of a Utah System Administrator Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:18:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Edward http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/06/15/find-large-files-in-multiple-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Edward Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:49:45 +0000 http://www.utahsysadmin.com/?p=104#comment-104 Xargs will solve the "Argument list to long" problem, info is here they can explain it better then I can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs Xargs will solve the “Argument list to long” problem, info is here they can explain it better then I can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs

]]> By: Brandon Checketts http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/06/15/find-large-files-in-multiple-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Brandon Checketts Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:40:03 +0000 http://www.utahsysadmin.com/?p=104#comment-101 This takes a while to run, but try <blockquote>du -mxS / | sort -n | tail -n 40</blockquote> I can't remember where I picked that up, or what each of the options are, but it gives your the 40 largest directories on the system. This takes a while to run, but try

du -mxS / | sort -n | tail -n 40

I can’t remember where I picked that up, or what each of the options are, but it gives your the 40 largest directories on the system.

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