Article 50890 of comp.unix.solaris: Path: mri.com!newsfeed1.aimnet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!www.austrocontrol.co.at!usenet From: "DI Krebs Wolfgang Abt.5/AUT" Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Finding Large Files (Help!) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:07:31 +0000 Organization: Austro Control GmbH Lines: 26 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <32997DF3.15E5@austrocontrol.co.at> References: <19961121222800.RAA16903@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sun51kr.austrocontrol.co.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) nathoosier@aol.com wrote: > > My root filesystem is slowly filling up and I am trying to find out why. > Is there a command (probably a form of 'find') that I can use to look for > large files? > > Any ideas would be tremendously appreciated. I am always doing it with find: find / -xdev -size +1024 -print will print all files of root partition bigger than 500 KBytes a good tip for filling up root partitions is cron. Check your /var/cron/log File if it is enlarging continuously. You can get rid of that by editing /etc/default/cron --> set cronlog=NO Krebs Wolfgang ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DI Krebs Wolfgang, wolfgang.krebs@austrocontrol.co.at Fa. Austro Control GmbH / DV Tel.: +43 / 1 / 1703 - 1460 Schnirchgasse 11 FAX : +43 / 1 / 1703 - 1406 A-1030 WIEN