Find Largest Directories/Files when Drive is Full [duplicate]
Solution 1:
If you can ssh from a different machine, then you can pipe the output to sort on the machine that is not full. Let's say that you have two machines -- slim (which doesn't have a full hard drive) and full, which does.
From the command prompt on slim:
ssh user@full 'du -sh /' | sort -h
The first part:
ssh user@full 'du -sh /'
generates output from full. The pipeline | sort -h is running locally on slim, so you won't get errors about disk space.