[gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Joseph]

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 }'

but I'm getting strange output:
13:57: 194M
2011: 57M
17:05: 31M
2011: 27M
06:02: 41M
11:31: 21M
11:39: 28M
22:02: 62M
2012: 26M
12:53: 104M
2012: 26M
16:33: 127M
21:28: 104M
20:21: 61M
06:20: 96M
2011: 21M
08:07: 26M
2011: 37M
2011: 28M
19:34: 93M
2013: 42M
20:54: 33M
2013: 40M
06:04: 26M
19:42: 190M
10:00: 47M
13:43: 1.3G
10:38: 41M
14:31: 41M
16:24: 711M
2012: 27M
08:21: 251M
2011: 44M
13:53: 651M
07:40: 46M
13:23: 49M
13:41: 355M
10:41: 20M
2013: 32M
...

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 07/13/2014 04:03 PM, Joseph 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 }'
> 
> but I'm getting strange output:

Just use "du -h" instead of "ls -lh" and awk:

  find / -type f -size +20000k -exec du -h {} \;

Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Tuomo Hartikainen]

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On 140713 1403, Joseph 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 }'
> 
> but I'm getting strange output:
> 13:57: 194M
> ...

Try

find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

instead?
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Tuomo Hartikainen

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Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Jc García]

2014-07-13 14:19 GMT-06:00 Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>:
> On 07/13/2014 04:03 PM, Joseph 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 }'
>>
>> but I'm getting strange output:
>
> Just use "du -h" instead of "ls -lh" and awk:
>
>   find / -type f -size +20000k -exec du -h {} \;
>
>

I usually use du and find, or the like, for this porpouse, but
recently stumbled upon the sys-apps/baobab (also known as gnome disk
usage tool) tool which does a nice job at locating those large files,
and giving you a nice graph of usage of diretories, pretty useful in
my opinion, and I don't think you need to install the entire gnome to
use it. give it a look for me it changed the way I do this particular
task.

Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Dimitri Semitsoglou-Tsiapos]

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).

Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:03:41 -0600, Joseph 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 }'
> 
> but I'm getting strange output:
> 13:57: 194M
> 2011: 57M
> 17:05: 31M

File name with spaces will result in awk returning the wrong field, or at
least not the field you expected. Use du as suggested elsewhere.


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Neil Bothwick

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Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Joseph]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Erik Mackdanz]

Instead of '-exec ls' I recommend the -ls or -printf switches.  If you
really require the human-formatted size, you can also just quote {} properly.

Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 }'
>
> but I'm getting strange output:
> 13:57: 194M
> 2011: 57M
> 17:05: 31M
> 2011: 27M
> 06:02: 41M
> 11:31: 21M
> 11:39: 28M
> 22:02: 62M
> 2012: 26M
> 12:53: 104M
> 2012: 26M
> 16:33: 127M
> 21:28: 104M
> 20:21: 61M
> 06:20: 96M
> 2011: 21M
> 08:07: 26M
> 2011: 37M
> 2011: 28M
> 19:34: 93M
> 2013: 42M
> 20:54: 33M
> 2013: 40M
> 06:04: 26M
> 19:42: 190M
> 10:00: 47M
> 13:43: 1.3G
> 10:38: 41M
> 14:31: 41M
> 16:24: 711M
> 2012: 27M
> 08:21: 251M
> 2011: 44M
> 13:53: 651M
> 07:40: 46M
> 13:23: 49M
> 13:41: 355M
> 10:41: 20M
> 2013: 32M
> ...
>
> -- 
> Joseph
>

-- 
Erik Mackdanz

Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Bruce Schultz]

On 14 July 2014 6:53:30 AM AEST, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
>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).

Pipe that through sort -h to get the files sorted by size

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