Comments on: Command line disk usage utilities df and du

By: Question about Storage!

Question about Storage! — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:32:24 +0000

[...] is the same as TopGear says, but maybe quicker: Command line disk usage utilities df and du Support requests by PM will remain unanswered, sorry.  GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 i7-2600K; [...]

By: kurtis mcdonald

kurtis mcdonald — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:07:39 +0000

i need to clear my mac’s info like games and the sort, but when I hit du, all the game info and whatnots also come out. How do I delete all that info PERMANANTLY?

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:43:43 +0000

You can also use ls -Sr

By: Khurt Williams

Khurt Williams — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:44:57 +0000

Try

du -ck * | sort -rn | head -11

By: Darrell

Darrell — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:00:08 +0000

I never knew about du, good info to know. And thanks lar3ry for the extended info on du

By: lar3ry

lar3ry — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:52:48 +0000

The DU utility is good for finding out where your disk space is being wasted. Use something like:

du -k * | sort -n

This will show the usage (in 1-K units) of all the files/directories in the current directory, which will be piped to the “sort” utility, using a numeric comparison on the first field (the size). Thus, your largest files/directories will be the last ones listed.

Note that while the -h option is useful for seeing “human readable” sizes, sort isn’t smart enough to realize that “256M” is larger than 816K. [smile]