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I'm running out of disk space on one of our Linux servers and I need to find out what is taking up all the space.

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du -m --max-depth=6 / | sort -nr | head -n 20 would show you 20 largest directories with the biggest ones on the top, usage indicated by megabytes.

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This works, thanks! – ThingsToDo Aug 23 '10 at 15:04
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Windirstat was heavily inspired by kdirstat, it should be in your distro.

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Thanks, I will check it out. – ThingsToDo Aug 23 '10 at 15:09
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du - disk usage. - "man du" for more information.

edit: normally something like du / -hc --max-depth=1 should do it

for graphical tools, try "filelight"

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Thanks, I appreciate it! – ThingsToDo Aug 23 '10 at 15:03
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Gnome has Disk Usage Analyzer, i have used it in Ubuntu, but i believe it is not ubuntu only. It has a similar pie chart thing to WinDirStats gui

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I routinely use:

du -cks * | sort -nr
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