{"id":25620,"date":"2018-02-20T02:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T08:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/?p=25620"},"modified":"2023-04-05T04:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T09:35:18","slug":"find-large-files-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/find-large-files-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Large Files in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/find-large-files-in-linux.jpg\" alt=\"find large files in linux\" width=\"742\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/find-large-files-in-linux.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/find-large-files-in-linux-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/find-large-files-in-linux-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Find-Large-files-Linux.jpg\" alt=\"Find Large files Linux\" width=\"150\" height=\"134\" \/>Today we will show you how you can <strong>find large files in Linux<\/strong>. One of the most common things you will do as a Linux system administrator is finding useless large files that consume disk space and removing them to free up space for applications that actually need it. Let&#8217;s dive in and find out how we can find large files in Linux.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6636f51489bc1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"ez-toc-cssicon\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6636f51489bc1\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/find-large-files-linux\/#Find-the-largest-directories-and-files-in-Linux\" title=\"Find the largest directories and files in\u00a0Linux\">Find the largest directories and files in\u00a0Linux<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/find-large-files-linux\/#Find-the-top-largest-directories-in-Linux\" title=\"Find\u00a0the top largest directories in Linux\">Find\u00a0the top largest directories in Linux<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/find-large-files-linux\/#Find-the-top-largest-files-in-Linux\" title=\"Find the top largest files in Linux\">Find the top largest files in Linux<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/find-large-files-linux\/#Find-the-largest-files-with-a-specific-extension-in-Linux\" title=\"Find the largest files with a specific extension in Linux\">Find the largest files with a specific extension in Linux<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Find-the-largest-directories-and-files-in-Linux\"><\/span>Find the largest directories and files in\u00a0Linux<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>First, we are going to look at how we can find the largest directories and files in Linux combined, execute the following command to find the top 10 largest directories and files on your Linux server:<\/p>\n<pre># du -ah \/* 2&gt;\/dev\/null | sort -rh | head -n 10<\/pre>\n<p>The output should show you the largest directories and files:<\/p>\n<pre>3.2G    \/backup\r\n1.3G    \/usr\r\n1.1G    \/var\r\n922M    \/home\r\n713M    \/var\/lib\r\n584M    \/odoo\r\n580M    \/usr\/lib\r\n579M    \/odoo\/odoo-server\r\n501M    \/home\/largefile3\r\n404M    \/odoo\/odoo-server\/addons\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Find-the-top-largest-directories-in-Linux\"><\/span>Find\u00a0the top largest directories in Linux<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This command can be pretty useful when you need to check the size of the directories in the root partition to get an idea of how the used space on your server is distributed. Using the following command you can find the top 10 largest directories in the root partition:<\/p>\n<pre># du -sh \/*\/ 2&gt;\/dev\/null | sort -rh | head -n 10<\/pre>\n<p>The output should show you the largest directories:<\/p>\n<pre>3.2G    \/backup\r\n1.3G    \/usr\/\r\n1.1G    \/var\/\r\n922M    \/home\/\r\n584M    \/odoo\/\r\n135M    \/opt\/\r\n43M     \/lib\/\r\n40M     \/run\/\r\n30M     \/root\/\r\n10M     \/bin\/\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>You can also use the following command to check the size of the sub-directories of a given directory, in this case, we&#8217;ll use the directory &#8216;var&#8217;:<\/p>\n<pre># find \/var\/* -type d -exec du -sh {} 2&gt;\/dev\/null + | sort -rh | head -n 10<\/pre>\n<p>The output should list the sub-directories of the &#8216;var&#8217; directory:<\/p>\n<pre>713M    \/var\/lib\r\n357M    \/var\/cache\r\n40M     \/var\/www\r\n3.1M    \/var\/log\r\n124K    \/var\/spool\r\n52K     \/var\/backups\r\n20K     \/var\/mail\r\n12K     \/var\/tmp\r\n4.0K    \/var\/opt\r\n4.0K    \/var\/local\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Find-the-top-largest-files-in-Linux\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/how-to-find-large-files-in-linux.jpg\" alt=\"how to find large files in linux\" width=\"91\" height=\"150\" \/>Find the top largest files in Linux<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes you may want to look for large files, especially large log files that can fill up your server pretty quickly, using the following command you can find the top 10 largest files on your server:<\/p>\n<pre># find \/ -type f -exec du -sh {} 2&gt;\/dev\/null + | sort -rh | head -n 10<\/pre>\n<p>The output should show you the largest files:<\/p>\n<pre>501M    \/home\/largefile3\r\n257M    \/home\/largefile2\r\n121M    \/home\/largefile1\r\n111M    \/odoo\/odoo-server\/.git\/objects\/pack\/pack-dcf71f4c259beb18e9784d3b4a00a45e1f2a8382.pack\r\n111M    \/backup\/odoo\/odoo-server\/.git\/objects\/pack\/pack-dcf71f4c259beb18e9784d3b4a00a45e1f2a8382.pack\r\n101M    \/var\/lib\/mongodb\/journal\/WiredTigerPreplog.0000000002\r\n101M    \/var\/lib\/mongodb\/journal\/WiredTigerPreplog.0000000001\r\n100M    \/backup\/var\/lib\/mongodb\/journal\/WiredTigerPreplog.0000000002\r\n100M    \/backup\/var\/lib\/mongodb\/journal\/WiredTigerPreplog.0000000001\r\n77M     \/var\/lib\/mysql\/ibdata1\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Find-the-largest-files-with-a-specific-extension-in-Linux\"><\/span>Find the largest files with a specific extension in Linux<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/finding-large-files-in-linux.jpg\" alt=\"finding large files in linux\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you are looking for large files of a particular extension you can find the top 10 largest files by their extension with the following command, we are going to use the &#8216;deb&#8217; extension in this case:<\/p>\n<pre># find \/ -type f -iname \"*.deb\" -exec du -sh {} + | sort -rh | head -10<\/pre>\n<p>The output should show you the largest files containing the extension we provided:<\/p>\n<pre>31M     \/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/mongodb-org-tools_3.2.14_amd64.deb\r\n31M     \/backup\/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/mongodb-org-tools_3.2.14_amd64.deb\r\n27M     \/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/libpython2.7-dev_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb\r\n27M     \/backup\/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/libpython2.7-dev_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb\r\n14M     \/opt\/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb\r\n14M     \/backup\/opt\/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb\r\n9.6M    \/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/mongodb-org-server_3.2.14_amd64.deb\r\n9.6M    \/backup\/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/mongodb-org-server_3.2.14_amd64.deb\r\n8.0M    \/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/g++-5_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4_amd64.deb\r\n8.0M    \/backup\/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/g++-5_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4_amd64.deb<\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<pre><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25696\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/linux-find-large-files.png\" alt=\"linux find large files\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/linux-find-large-files.png 128w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/linux-find-large-files-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/pre>\n<p>If you use one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/managed-vps-hosting.html\" rel=\"noopener\">VPS Hosting<\/a> plans, you don\u2019t have search for the largest directories and files yourself, you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to find the largest directories and files on your Linux based VPS for you. They are available 24\u00d77 and will take care of your request immediately.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PS.<\/strong><\/span> If you liked this post on how to <strong>find large files in Linux<\/strong>, please share it with your friends on the social networks using the buttons on the left or simply leave a reply below. Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we will show you how you can find large files in Linux. 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