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I was using df -h to print out human readable disk usage. I would like to figure out what is taking up so much space. For instance, is there a way to pipe this command so that it prints out files that are larger than 1GB in size? Other ideas?

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I use WinDirStat on windows, really interested if there is a CLI equivalent for *NIX – Silverfire Aug 15 '11 at 23:56
filelight is a nice GUI app for Linux – Hubert Kario Aug 16 '11 at 9:32
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I use this one a lot.

du -kscx *

It can take a while to run, but it'll tell you where the disk space is being used.

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You can use the find command. Example:

find /home/ -size +1073700000c -print
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Newer versions of GNU find also support M (Megabytes) as a modifier. ie find /path -size +1024M – Jodie C Aug 16 '11 at 0:19
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You may want to try the ncdu utility found at: http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

It will quicky sum the contents of a filesystem or directory tree and print the results, sorted by size. It's a really nice way to drill-down interactively and see what's consuming drive space.

Additionally, it can be faster than some du combinations.

The typical output looks like:

ncdu 1.7 ~ Use the arrow keys to navigate, press ? for help                                                         
--- /data ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  163.3GiB [##########] /docimages                                                                                  
   84.4GiB [#####     ] /data
   82.0GiB [#####     ] /sldata
   56.2GiB [###       ] /prt
   40.1GiB [##        ] /slisam
   30.8GiB [#         ] /isam
   18.3GiB [#         ] /mail
   10.2GiB [          ] /export
    3.9GiB [          ] /edi   
    1.7GiB [          ] /io     
    1.2GiB [          ] /dmt
  896.7MiB [          ] /src
  821.5MiB [          ] /upload
  691.1MiB [          ] /client
  686.8MiB [          ] /cocoon
  542.5MiB [          ] /hist
  358.1MiB [          ] /savsrc
  228.9MiB [          ] /help
  108.1MiB [          ] /savbin
  101.2MiB [          ] /dm
   40.7MiB [          ] /download
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I myself use

du -c --max-depth=4 /dir | sort -n

this returns amount of space used by a directory and its subdirectories up to 4 deep, sort -n will put the largest last

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Thanks to everyone for the answers! – syn4k Aug 16 '11 at 15:24
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