Find Large Files Wasting Disk Space

by damonp on September 19, 2005

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Find files over 8000k on all mounted drives and print the filesize and path:

find /$1 -mount -size +8000k -exec ls -sh {} \;

This one is suitable for a cron job. It does the same, sorts by filesize and mails the result to the supplied email address.

find /$1 -mount -size +8000k -exec ls -sh {} \; | /bin/sort -n | mail email@domain.com

Adjust the 8000k to search for larger or smaller files.

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