How Find Large Files in Linux?

How do I find large files on Linux?

The procedure to find largest files including directories in Linux is as follows:

1. Open the terminal application.
2. Login as root user using the sudo -i command.
3. Type du -a /dir/ | sort -n -r | head -n 20.
4. du will estimate file space usage.
5. sort will sort out the output of du command.

17 янв. 2021 г.

How find files larger than 100MB Linux?

Use below examples, which will help you to find files by there size and extension.

1. Find all files larger than or equal to 100 MB under entire file system. find / -type f -size +100M.
2. Find all files greater than 1 GB size in root file system. find / -type f -size +1G.

30 дек. 2020 г.