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Zim3r
Asked: 2012-09-17 00:28:29 +0800 CST

Locating large files (> 100 MB) in /home/ for 'cleaning'

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How to locate large files (> 100 MB) in /home/ for 'cleaning'?

It's Centos 6.x. I tried some commands, but they didn't work.

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  1. Best Answer

    Find has it's own -delete option so

    find /home -type f -size +100M -delete

    should do what you want. Just be careful about where you put the -delete option

    Warnings: Don’t forget that the find command line is evaluated as an expression, so putting -delete first will make find try to delete everything below the starting points you specified.

    If you want to test this before using it then you need to add -depth as -delete implies it.

    find /home -type f -size +100M -depth
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  2. ncdu is a nice interactive tool to find big files or directories. It will scan a given directory and show a simple ncurses interface to present sizes of directories. It also has a shortcut to delete a file/directory.

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  3. Just find: find /home -type f -size +100M

    find and remove find /home -type f -size +100M -print0 |xargs -0 rm

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  4. du /home | awk '$1 > 1234 { print }'

    It searches not for large files but for large folders. In case of running out of file space I try to look both for large files and large folders to identify problematic areas.

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