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Check used space dirs Ubuntu

Last week there was a disk space problem on an AWS instance, we couldn't figure out where space was being used.

The good old ls / ll wasn't going to cut it, had to search a way to discover what folder was taking up so much space.

Starting from the root $ cd / I used the command below:

$ du -hcsx .[!.]* * | sort -rh | head

With the help of that command, I was able to drill down to the folder that had up to 100GB total size in files.

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