What's taking up all my disk space?

[Murk Fletcher]

> du -sh /* | sort -rh

Now _that_ is a thing of beauty. This one goes straight to my notes.

Cheers!

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Arthur Chance <freebsd at qeng-ho.org> wrote:

> On 26/01/2016 10:23, Anton Sayetsky wrote:
>
>> 26 янв. 2016 г. 12:21 пользователь "Murk Fletcher" <
>> murk.fletcher at gmail.com>
>> написал:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Woke up to a nasty surprise this morning:
>>>
>>> /: write failed, filesystem is full
>>> # df -h
>>> Filesystem         Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>>> /dev/gpt/rootfs     38G     35G   -7.4M   100%    /
>>> devfs              1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
>>> fdescfs            1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev/fd
>>> linprocfs          4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
>>>
>>> I have no idea why this is because I'm only using my FreeBSD VPS to run a
>>> small Rails app in `/usr/home/`:
>>>
>>> # du -sh /usr/home
>>> 8.6G    /usr/home
>>> # du -sh /usr/
>>>   12G    /usr/
>>> # du -sh /
>>>   34G    /
>>>
>>> Maybe there's a way to use `du` to show all files larger than 1GB and
>>> then
>>> pass it on to some other command to sort them by size?
>>>
>> Try "du -sh /*" first.
>>
>
> There aren't so many sub-directories in / that it's difficult to spot the
> largest but
>
> du -sh /* | sort -rh
>
> will order the list from largest to smallest. Very useful (possibly with
> head added to the pipeline) if you've got a lot of subdirectories.
>
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