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Largest files in file system

Quickly check the log file size:

du -sh /var/log

Quickly check the home directory of a user:

du -sh /home/rack

Show a break down of the system usage:

FS='/';NUMRESULTS=20;resize;clear;date;df -h $FS; echo "Largest Directories:";\
du -x $FS 2>/dev/null| sort -rnk1| head -n $NUMRESULTS| awk '{printf "%d MB %s\n",\
$1/1024,$2}';echo "Largest Files:"; nice -n 19 find $FS -mount -type f -ls \
2>/dev/null| sort -rnk7| head -n $NUMRESULTS|awk '{printf "%d MB\t%s\n",\
($7/1024)/1024,$NF}'

Excluding a specific directory:

Following shows the largest directories excluding /var/lib/mysql

FS='/';NUMRESULTS=20;resize;clear;date;df -h $FS; echo "Largest Directories:";\
du --exclude /var/lib/mysql -x $FS 2>/dev/null| sort -rnk1| head -n $NUMRESULTS| awk '{printf "%d MB %s\n",\
$1/1024,$2}'

Other Command:

echo -e "\n\nHi, \n\nDiskoverview for $(hostname)\n\n $(df -h) \n\nHere is the list of the largest files: \n" ; find / -type f -not -path "/proc/*" -not -path "/dev/*" -not -path "/sys/*" -size +512000k -exec du -hs {} \;  ;  echo -e  "\n\nAnd here is the list of the largest folders:\n"; du -h / | grep ^[1-9][0-9][0-9.]*G | sort -rn;

INODES

nice -n 19 find / -type d 2>/dev/null -print0 | while IFS= read -rd '' i; do echo $(ls -a "$i" | wc -l) "$i"; done | sort -n -r | head