* On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:08:11AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > * On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 08:16:52AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > Since you have everything in different partitions you are only > > > interested in what happens on /dev/sdc1, you might try: > > > > > > sudo find / -xdev -type f -printf "%15s %p\n" |sort -r | head -50 > > > > > > to find the 50 biggest files in /. > > > > "sort -r" should be "sort -nr" here for this to work. > > I think the printf with the width specifier gets around the problem > that "sort -nr" is supposed to fix :-).
It doesn't when I try it; it worked after I put the n in... -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in . | free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
