How to find large files in Linux

  • 7010711
  • 30-Aug-2012
  • 23-Aug-2013

Environment

Novell Open Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Situation

How to identify, find, locate, determine large or big files in linux.

Resolution

Identifying files over 1GB anywhere on the filesystem. From a terminal window, enter:
nice find / -size +1G -exec ls -lhs {} \; 2>/dev/null


Identifying files over 500MB starting from a specific path. From a terminal window, enter:
nice find / -size +500M -exec ls -lhs {} \; 2>/dev/null

Identifying files over 500kb starting from a specific path. From a terminal window, enter:
nice find / -size +500k -exec ls -lhs {} \; 2>/dev/null