B balanga Oct 11, 2023 #1 I'm trying to tidy up various disks, most of which have FreeBSD installed, and wondered how to locate which files occupy most space. Any suggestions?
I'm trying to tidy up various disks, most of which have FreeBSD installed, and wondered how to locate which files occupy most space. Any suggestions?
smithi Oct 12, 2023 #4 cracauer@ said: find . -ls | sort -n -k 2 Click to expand... [edit: That sorts in 512-byte blocks, with very wide lines. I find usually more appropriate find $where -type f -exec ls -l {} + | sort -n -k5 /edit] One might want to add | tail -n $lines or perhaps | less +G where there may be many files?
cracauer@ said: find . -ls | sort -n -k 2 Click to expand... [edit: That sorts in 512-byte blocks, with very wide lines. I find usually more appropriate find $where -type f -exec ls -l {} + | sort -n -k5 /edit] One might want to add | tail -n $lines or perhaps | less +G where there may be many files?
cracauer@ Developer Oct 12, 2023 #5 There is a difference between file length and the space a file allocates on disk, for example when there are sparse files. Field 2 of `find . -ls` counts the latter, field 5 of `ls -l` the former.
There is a difference between file length and the space a file allocates on disk, for example when there are sparse files. Field 2 of `find . -ls` counts the latter, field 5 of `ls -l` the former.
smithi Oct 12, 2023 #6 cracauer@ said: There is a difference between file length and the space a file allocates on disk, for example when there are sparse files. Click to expand... True. I don't recall ever having - or at least noticing - a sparse file on my systems in 25 years. cracauer@ said: Field 2 of `find . -ls` counts the latter, field 5 of `ls -l` the former. Click to expand... Quite so. Looking at diskspace I most often use # du -md1 $where | sort -n [| tail ...] with du(1) options like -A for sparse files, -a for each file and -s; it's also faster than find, esp. from /
cracauer@ said: There is a difference between file length and the space a file allocates on disk, for example when there are sparse files. Click to expand... True. I don't recall ever having - or at least noticing - a sparse file on my systems in 25 years. cracauer@ said: Field 2 of `find . -ls` counts the latter, field 5 of `ls -l` the former. Click to expand... Quite so. Looking at diskspace I most often use # du -md1 $where | sort -n [| tail ...] with du(1) options like -A for sparse files, -a for each file and -s; it's also faster than find, esp. from /
