Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Dimitri Semitsoglou-Tsiapos <kmhzsem@gmx.com>]

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).