how do I check what are the biggest files in /var & its subdirectories

[Ravinder Singh Gill]

how do I check what are the biggest files in /var & its subdirectories

i know its the du command but with what options?

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

try:

# du -ka|sort -rnk1|more

regards.

[vinod_25]

hi ravinder

try this

find /var -size +5000000c -xdev -exec ll {} \;

where the files more than 5MB will be listed below directories and subdirectories of var
you can use du command also

cd /var
du -ks * |sort -rn |head

Good luck

Vinod

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi,

try too:
du -kx /var | sort -rn | more

Best regards,
Fabio

[Pete Randall]

Unfortunately, there is no -r (recursive) option to du, so you have to do it manually, searching at the top directory level and then working your way down. The only other way would be to combine find and du like this:

find /var -type d |xargs du -sk |sort -n

That might work.


Pete

[Sudeesh · Accepted solution]

another option:
find /var -size +10000000c -exec ll {} \; |more

will list all files having size more than 100MB.


Sudeesh

[Ravinder Singh Gill]

it said

root@hp10:/var -: find /var -size +10000000c -exec || {}\;|more
find: -exec requires an argument
sh: {};: not found.

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

it should be:

# find /var -size +10000000c -exec ls -ld {}\;

regards.
(p.s. please remember to assign points.)

[Joseph Loo]

type too fast, correct syntax:

# find /var -size +10000000c -exec ls -ld {} \;

du command may be use as well.

regards.

[Muthukumar_5]

Try as,

find /var \( -type f -o -type d \) -exec du -k {} \+ | sort -rn | more

hth.

[MarkSyder]

It looks to me as if you've typed || (pipes) instead of ll (letters).

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Cem Tugrul]

Hi,
Another solution from me;

cd var;
find . -type f -exec ls -lrt {} \;|sort +4n

Good Luck,

[Pradeep_29]

Simple command which I prefer always...

"du -x | sort -n"

~Pradeep.

[Sudeesh]

Ravinder,
Probably you missed a space.

find/var-size +10000000c-execll{}\;|more

find /var -size +1000000c -exec ll {} \;|more
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1094905 Jul 9 07:25 /var/adm/sw/products/I
NDEX
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 1168874 Jun 12 2003 /var/stm/data/eventdef
-r-xr-xr-- 1 bin bin 2280478 Mar 17 2003 /var/stm/data/tools/ve
rify/trap_big.bm



Sudeesh