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Revision: 46458
at June 4, 2011 06:39 by pyroblue
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#the entire filesystem, starting at '/'
du -a /* | sort -n -r | head -n 10

#or for a particular directory:
du -a /home/username/ | sort -n -r | head -n 10

Revision: 46457
at May 20, 2011 00:18 by pyroblue
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the entire "box":
du -a /* | sort -n -r | head -n 10

or for a particular directory:
du -a /home/username/ | sort -n -r | head -n 10
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find the largest directories in a Unix shell









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