Linux – find top directories by used disk size (excluding size of subdirectories)

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Find top directories by size is useful to find and delete large files on Linux. One can use du command for this.

  • Change to Linux root
    cd /
  • Run du with -S option and use it with sort
    sudo du -Sh | sort -rh | head -20

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