Finding Large Files

1.         Modify directory to the location which is to be searched

2.         The size of files in blocks from largest to smallest could be as shown below.

# ls -s | sort -nr | more

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sort -nr  Sorts the list of files through block size from smallest to largest.

Let consider the following example

In the given example, wtmpx and lastlog are the largest files in the /var/adm directory.

# cd /var/adm

# ls -s | sort -nr | more

320 wtmpx

128 lastlog

74 pacct

56 messages

30 wtmp

6 utmpx

2 utmp

2 sulog

2 sa

2 passwd

2 log

0 spellhist total 624