How to find the largest directory

[Binu_5]

Hi

Can somebody tell me how to check the largest
directory in a file system

Thanks
Binu

[Steven E. Protter]

cd /filesystem

du -sk | sort -rn | more

or

du -k | sort -rn | more

I think its the first choice.

SEP

[Muthukumar_5]

You want to get the path length or in size?

You can get all directories in a directory with path length as,

find / -type d | awk '{ print $0" "length($0); }'

hth.

[Muthukumar_5]

To get directory with size then,

# cd
# du -k | sort -r

hth.

[Alessandro Pilati]

FSS=your_FS_name
du -k $FSS |sort -r -n +0|grep -v "$FSS$"|head -1
It will give you the exactly biggest subdir name and size of your FSS

Regards,
Alex

[Cem Tugrul]

Binu,

cd /file_system
du -ks * |sort -n

Good Luck,