Finding what's using all the space in *nix
Solution 1:
I personally like to use du -sh * to see how big each directory is within the current directory.
Also you can sort to have bigger folders first: du -shx * | sort -hr. For du:
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-s, --summarize: display only a total for each argument -
-h, --human-readable: print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G) -
-x, --one-file-system: skip directories on different file systems
For sort:
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-h, --human-numeric-sort: compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)
Solution 2:
ncdu
Is just great: CLI, ncurses based, fast, simple. Install it with sudo apt install ncdu.
