List Folders by Size

[office politics]

du --max-depth=1 /home | sort -rn


max-depth sets how many folders deep to search for.

use this to find which folder are taking up the most space

 

[Jayce]

Nice. I was always curious how I could have a "disk usage analyzer" type of feature in terminal.

 

[kmote]

Good tip.

 

[office politics]

yup, found it on the net. needed it to find the space hog.

df -h was useful too