How to find large files in Linux
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Situation
How to identify, find, locate, determine large or big files in linux.
Resolution
Identifying files over 1GB anywhere on the filesystem. From a terminal window, enter:
nice find / -size +1G -exec ls -lhs {} \; 2>/dev/null
Identifying files over 500MB starting from a specific path. From a terminal window, enter:
nice find / -size +500M -exec ls -lhs {} \; 2>/dev/null
Identifying files over 500kb starting from a specific path. From a terminal window, enter:
nice find / -size +500k -exec ls -lhs {} \; 2>/dev/null
nice find / -size +1G -exec ls -lhs {} \; 2>/dev/null
Identifying files over 500MB starting from a specific path. From a terminal window, enter:
nice find / -size +500M -exec ls -lhs {} \; 2>/dev/null
Identifying files over 500kb starting from a specific path. From a terminal window, enter:
nice find / -size +500k -exec ls -lhs {} \; 2>/dev/null
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- Document ID:7010711
- Creation Date: 30-Aug-2012
- Modified Date:04-Mar-2021
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