Feb 17, 2022 16:52
Find the Hog
If your users keep using up all the space in your home directory, here is a way to apprehend the top offenders.
cd /home
du -ks *|sort -nr|pg
(Note: The "k" option may not be necessary in non-posix systems.)
This string will show you all the directory sizes in order, largest first. Now if you are going to do a little cleanup yourself, in one of those directories run:
ls -ls|sort -nr|pg
This will list files by size largest first. That way when you do your compress, move, or remove, you may actually reclaim a significant amount of space.
unix,
linux,
hog