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
>
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