Highest disk usage of directory in subdirectories

2018-03-12 1 min read bash
I find myself doing this lot of times so thought will share this with you all. Basically, once I want to clear out the directory, I first want to find out the sub-directory using the maximum disk space so I wrote a function for that and here it is: disk_usage_dirs () { find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name '.' | while read line; do du -s "$line"; done | sort -n | tail -${1:-5} } Some other posts you might find useful on this : Continue reading

Disk usage by file type

2015-11-30 1 min read Fedora Learning
Trying to find the total usage for each of the file types by extension, then here is a quick bash function for you : disk_usage_type () { find . -name '*'$1 -ls | awk ' BEGIN{ a[0]="Bytes"; a[1]="KB"; a[2]="MB"; a[3]="GB"; } {sum+=$7; files++;} END{ print "Total sum is ::\t" sum; print "Total files ::\t" files; while (sum > 1024) { sum=sum/1024; count++; }; print sum" "a[count]; }' } Just define the function in one of your bash startup files. Continue reading