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*nix disk usage snippets
#http://www.sakana.fr/blog/2010/01/17/linux-unix-disk-usage-and-identifying-biggest-files/
kattoo@roadrunner ~/Downloads $ df | sort -n -k 5,5
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
shm 2029696 0 2029696 0% /dev/shm
# largest folders
kattoo@roadrunner /usr/portage $ du -sk * | sort -n | tail -20
# find large files
kattoo@roadrunner /usr/portage $ find . -type f -size +10000000c -exec ls -l \{} \; | sort -n -k 5,5 | tail -10
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 23416703 Oct 1 10:07 ./distfiles/samba-3.0.37.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 28749072 Jan 18 2008 ./distfiles/extremetuxracer-0.4.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 46905557 Oct 16 17:20 ./distfiles/firefox-3.5.4.source.tar.bz2
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