That's close to what I use but I think this is a tad better though -h vs -k is arguable, I think -c is great. du -chs * On Thursday 21 September 2006 14:17, Mike Miller wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 dalan at visi.com wrote: > > How about the find command. Try something like find / -depth -size +500k > > -ls > > That would be a very thorough way of finding big files and it will take a > long time. I usually use "du -sk *" to get a listing of directory volumes > in the current default directory. That helps me to figure out where the > big stuff is. When there are lots of data, that method isn't super fast > either, but it is fast on showing the directories that don't have a lot in > them. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list