linux / partition filling up

need to find the file(s) that are doing it

[iceman42]

df -h shows me that / partition jumps about 7-9% daily in size but I am not sure of the culprit, I know there is a command where you can find the file sizes and sort them biggest to smallest.

[MattyMoose]

what about:

du ¦ sort -n

[iceman42]

du: invalid option -- n

[MattyMoose]

Did you put the "¦" in there? IIRC, WebmasterWorld does something weird to the pipes.

Anyway, try this one that I found which is pretty good:

du -h ¦ grep "[0-9]M" ¦ sort -n -r ¦ less

That will only find files that are >= 1MB

Cheers,
Matt

[Birdman]

FileLight [methylblue.com] is a cool graphical disk-usage utility.

[zCat]

find / -size +1024k -exec ls -sh {} \; ¦ sort -r -n ¦ less

will find all files beginning in the root directory larger than 1024 kilobytes. Change according to requirments. Unfortunately there's no shortcut for specifiying the size in megabytes.

[jatar_k]

as a sidenote for all commands listed above

always change the ¦ char in copied commands from the forum with a true pipe character