List Largest directories by Diskspace

List Largest directories by Diskspace


Directory Size Lister/Sorter

Have you ever wondered which directories and trees take up all the diskspace? Questions like this come during pruning/archiving, backup, and numerous other activities. Make the following oneliner script (I call it dirsizes) to find out:

Code:

du -sm $(find $1 -type d -maxdepth 1 -xdev) | sort -g