SoftDux Technical Blog

I often need to find out what’s using up a lot of space in a user’s folder, or on a backup server.

The easiest way is to use Linux’s “du” or Disk Usage command.

The following command will show you the sizes of the different folders, and will only display it on that level – i.e it won’t show you the sub-folders:

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du -h –max-depth=1 ./
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Alternatively you can use find, as such:

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find / -size +2G -print
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This will find all files larger than 2GB