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Linux - Find The Biggest Files On Your Hard-Drive

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Zig
Zig
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ls -l | sort +4n

Or, for those of you really scrunched for space this takes awhile but works great:

cd /
ls -lR | sort +4n

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michael
michael
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Oh. :) I always thought it was best to leave the bigger files alone because they were like system files.

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