Timeline for Tracking down where disk space has gone on Linux?
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| Aug 30, 2018 at 8:41 | comment | added | oarfish | On Ubuntu, I need to use -h to du for human readable numbers, as well as sort -h for human-numeric sort. The list is sorted in reverse, so either use tail or change order. | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 13:00 | comment | added | Clare Macrae | @Siddhartha If you add -h, it will likely change the effect of the sort -nr command - meaning the sort will no longer work, and then the head command will also no longer work | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 2:57 | comment | added | Siddhartha | You could do du -Sh to get a human readable output. | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 8:48 | comment | added | serg10 | By default, on my system, 'du -S' gives a nice human readable output. You get a plain number of bytes for small files, then a number with a 'KB' or 'MB' suffix for bigger files. | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 0:12 | comment | added | User | Is this in bytes? | |
| Apr 18, 2014 at 18:36 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Jun 20, 2013 at 2:24 | comment | added | thegreendroid | This command did the trick to find a hidden folder that seemed to be increasing in size over time. Thanks! | |
| Jul 8, 2010 at 8:58 | history | answered | serg10 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |