How to Find Large Files

1. Change directory to the location where you want to search.

2. Display the size of files in blocks from largest to smallest.

   $ ls -s | sort -nr | more

   sort -nr

   Sorts the list of files by block size from smallest to largest.

Example--Finding Large Files

In the following example, wtmpx and lastlog are the largest files in the /var/adm directory.

$ cd /var/adm
$ ls -s | sort -nr | more
 320 wtmpx
 128 lastlog
  74 pacct
  56 messages
  30 wtmp
   6 utmpx
   2 utmp
   2 sulog
   2 sa
   2 passwd
   2 log
   0 spellhist
total 624