List all the rpms by size – quick way to find out what is eating your disk space in root partition

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:38:35 +0000

Here is a quick command to check the list of installed packages by their size in reverse order. Very useful if you want to remove unwanted rpms just to clean up some space on your disk:

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      rpm -q -a --qf "%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n" | sort -k1,1nr |more
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Sample output:

78070452   kernel
78060477   kernel
50708634   jre
50316408   libgcj
48581593   wireshark
47778643   gimp
47674675   jre
47303084   qt-x11
45838912   otrs
45657248   chromium-libs
42070128   wxPython

Queryformat on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog

List all the rpms by size – quick way to find out what is eating your disk space in root partition