Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

On 07/13/14 23:25, Dimitri Semitsoglou-Tsiapos wrote:
>On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:03:41 -0600
>Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to clean up my home directory by locating large disk
>> files. I used: find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk
>> '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'
>
>Take a look here regarding why you should never parse ls' output:
>http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
>
>You can use ncdu or xdiskusage (both available in portage) to get more
>useful output. Both will allow you to track down large folders, not
>just single files (for example cache folders tend to hold a large
>amount of tiny files, which may collectively amount for a large chunk
>of your hard disk space).
>

Thanks folks, so in this case I guess:
find / -type f -size +20000k -exec du -h {} \;

is the winner (it does the trick).

-- 
Joseph