HOW TO FIND THE LARGEST FILES OR DIRECTORIES ON YOUR VPS
October 30, 2015 / by Marco / Categories : Software, Technology
My CentOS VPS was running out of space so I needed to do a bit of a clean up and decided to see which files and directories used up the most space. So after some digging around I found these two commands.
This one is to find the largest 10 directories:
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {}
This one is to find the largest 10 files:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {}

If you want to display more than 10 results then change the tail -10 to another amount. I then found a couple of large xml files and deleted these which freed up over 2 GB of data.
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