{"id":8914,"date":"2023-10-03T20:10:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.linuxandotherstuff.com\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2023-10-03T20:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T20:12:37","slug":"how-to-find-most-used-disk-space-directories-and-files-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/how-to-find-most-used-disk-space-directories-and-files-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Most Used Disk Space Directories and Files in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Run the following command to find out the top biggest directories under \/home partition.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\ndu -a \/home | sort -n -r | head -n 5\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p>To display the largest folders\/files including the sub-directories, run:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\ndu -Sh | sort -rh | head -5\n<\/pre><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Run the following command to find out the top biggest directories under \/home partition. To display the largest folders\/files including the sub-directories, run:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8917,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions\/8917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}